Legal Opinion

Chanowski v. Forman Indus., Inc.

Massachusetts Appeals Court

Decided October 13, 2017No. 16–P–1369Published

1Opinion of the Court

The defendant appeals from a judgment of the Superior Court that ordered the defendant to permit the plaintiffs to inspect various corporate records of the defendant, awarded attorney's fees to the plaintiffs, and dismissed the defendant's counterclaims.3 We affirm.

The defendant's principal claim on appeal-that the plaintiffs failed to establish that their request was made in good faith and for a proper purpose-is largely controlled by the recent opinion of the Supreme Judicial Court in Chitwood v. Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 476 Mass. 667 (2017), which was decided after judgment entered in…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Fabre v. WaltonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2004
  2. Yorke Management v. CastroMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1989
  3. Chitwood v. Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2017

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