Legal Opinion
City of Harper Woods Employees' Retirement System Ex Rel. BAE Systems PLC v. Olver
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided September 11, 2008No. Civil Action 07-1646 (RMC)PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
ROSEMARY M. COLLYER, District Judge.
Plaintiff, City of Harper Woods Employees’ Retirement System, alleges breach of fiduciary duty and waste of corporate assets by current 1 and former 2 directors of BAE Systems pic (“BAE pic” or the “Company”). BAE pic and the Individual Defendants (collectively, “Defendants”) urge this Court to dismiss for any one of three separate and independently disposi-tive grounds. See Dkt. # 43. First, under the law of the United Kingdom (“U.K.”), which Defendants contend governs this action, Plaintiff lacks standing to bring a shareholder…
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