Len J. Dillon v. F. Steven Berg

OPINION OF THE COURT

Finding that a solicitation of proxies for the 1970 annual shareholders’ meeting of Scotten, Dillon Company, a corporation, had been supported by accompanying data that was materially false and misleading, the District Court for the District of Delaware has ruled that the proxies thus obtained and the meeting at which they were voted were illegal. 1971, 326 F.Supp. 1214. The order of the court also contained detailed provisions for calling and conducting a special shareholders’ meeting at which the qualified shareholders would be, as nearly as practicable, those who were…