Tyson Foods, Inc. v. Aetos Corp.

This is an appeal from a decision of the Court of Chancery refusing to vacate previous orders of the court ordering specific performance of a merger agreement and approving the settlement of related shareholder claims. The appellant, Tyson Foods, Inc. (“Tyson”), filed a timely appeal from the denial of vacatur but seeks to expand the scope of that appeal to include review of the merits of the subsidiary rulings as well. Appellees, plaintiffs in a related derivative action pending in a federal district court, have moved to dismiss Tyson’s appeal to the extent it seeks review of rulings of the…