Court of Chancery News

Delaware Governor John Carney on Thursday nominated a corporate lawyer and a court official to fill two newly created openings on the state’s influential Court of Chancery, which is a major venue for major shareholder disputes. Kathaleen McCormick, an attorney …

An open-government group on Tuesday, Oct. 25, challenged a law that allows members of Delaware’s Court of Chancery to preside over secret arbitration proceedings in business disputes. The Delaware Coalition for Open Government claims in the federal lawsuit that a …