Boland v. Boland

I respectfully dissent. What we and our colleagues have been asked to do in this case is wade in on an intra-family financial dispute in which siblings are vying for financial hegemony in their two family owned and operated corporations. Two of the Boland brothers seek to have this Court consider their siblings on the boards of directors “as a serpent’s egg”1 because of the latters’ approval of stock exchanges to each other in an alleged unseemly effort to take control of their corporations at the expense of the rest of the family. In the face of these accusations, the boards of directors of…