Mississippi Chancery Courts

Citizens for Judicial Fairness Places Thanksgiving Print Ad Highlighting Chancery Court Corruption by Delaware Insiders

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Monday, November 27, 2023
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Today, Citizens for Judicial Fairness announced the launch of a new print advertising campaign on Thanksgiving weekend criticizing Delaware legal insiders for their profiteering off of their Chancery Court connections.

Key Points: 
  • Today, Citizens for Judicial Fairness announced the launch of a new print advertising campaign on Thanksgiving weekend criticizing Delaware legal insiders for their profiteering off of their Chancery Court connections.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231127511482/en/
    Chancery corruption advertising that ran in the News Journal on Thanksgiving weekend (Photo: Citizens for Judicial Fairness)
    Citizens for Judicial Fairness released the following statement about the campaign: “We are grateful to have the opportunity to expose the hypocrisy and enrichment of Chancery insiders this holiday season.
  • Time and again we have seen these insiders enrich themselves at the expense of companies they are supposed to serve and the people of Delaware.
  • This holiday season, we’re redoubling our commitment to reform the Chancery to work for the people, not for insiders.”
    “Profiteering on the menu this Thanksgiving?

Citizens for Judicial Fairness Protests Delaware’s Kangaroo Chancery Court at Corporate Law Conference

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Thursday, October 12, 2023
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Chancellor McCormick epitomizes the exploitative behavior at play in the Chancery Court.

Key Points: 
  • Chancellor McCormick epitomizes the exploitative behavior at play in the Chancery Court.
  • Since stepping into her role, the Chancery Court has rubber-stamped millions in excessive legal fees for corporate elites.
  • TransPerfect, the world’s largest translation services company, is still being charged millions in egregious fees every month by Skadden Arps – fees that are promptly approved by McCormick’s Chancery Court.
  • Businesses that once called Delaware home are now fleeing the state due to murky court rulings from the Delaware Chancery Court.

Citizens for Judicial Fairness Slams Latest Chancery Court Decision to Reject Skadden Fee Challenge in TransPerfect Case

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Wednesday, August 9, 2023
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“It's no surprise that the most crooked court in America would rule yet again that corrupt custodianships can continue with impunity to bleed dry a smashing, modern day American business success story -- but can't they at least try to mask the breathtaking corruption that's making them and their insider buddies rich? The general public and those who come before the court seeking a fair shake would no doubt appreciate the Chancellors at least try to pretend they aren't there to stuff their faces at the cash trough while everyone else waits for some shred of justice to be done."

Key Points: 
  • Today, following reporting that the Chancery Court has rejected TransPerfect’s latest challenge to Custodian Skadden Arps’ unreasonable billing practices, Citizens for Judicial Fairness released the following statement:
    "Today, the Delaware Chancery Court served up healthy doses of arrogance and condescension to go alongside its routine rulings that protect self-dealing legal elites.
  • TransPerfect simply seeks to end the Chancery's boundless fleecing of the company's employees, customers and shareholders in the form of outrageous legal fees that fill the pockets of the court's cronies.
  • Not only did the Court not even deign to seriously consider TransPerfect's pursuit of justice, it instead huffed and puffed in exacerbation at being asked to stop this court-sanctioned highway robbery.
  • View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230809799287/en/

Citizens for Judicial Fairness Condemns Delaware Old Boys’ Club After Twitter Lawsuit Against Wachtell Reveals Gross Overbilling from Former Judge Leo Strine

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Monday, July 10, 2023
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Crucially, the lawsuit alleges boasting from Wachtell about their “preeminent Delaware litigation experience” given attorney Leo Strine’s former role as Chancery Court Chancellor and Delaware Supreme Court Chief Justice.

Key Points: 
  • Crucially, the lawsuit alleges boasting from Wachtell about their “preeminent Delaware litigation experience” given attorney Leo Strine’s former role as Chancery Court Chancellor and Delaware Supreme Court Chief Justice.
  • We condemn the Chancery Court, Wachtell, and Leo Strine for continuing to enable this bad behavior in case after case.
  • In 2022, Wachtell approached Twitter, touting its expertise in Delaware's litigation practices and highlighting the inclusion of Strine as part of their team.
  • For more information on Citizens for Judicial Fairness, visit citizensforjudicialfairness.org
    View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230710064063/en/

Delaware Chancery Court Rules for Yenni Equity Fund, Confirms Board Control

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Wednesday, June 14, 2023
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Musa Yenni and Yenni Income Opportunities Fund I, L.P. (the “Fund”), a Delaware private equity fund, achieved a sweeping trial victory in the Delaware Court of Chancery.

Key Points: 
  • Musa Yenni and Yenni Income Opportunities Fund I, L.P. (the “Fund”), a Delaware private equity fund, achieved a sweeping trial victory in the Delaware Court of Chancery.
  • On May 31, 2023, the Chancery Court issued a ruling in favor of Mr. Yenni and the Fund rejecting claims of fraudulent inducement and equitable estoppel, thereby confirming the Fund’s supermajority control of the Board of Managers of Steven Feller P.E., LLC (dba Feller Engineering) ( www.fellerpe.com ).
  • The Chancery Court found no basis for Braga’s allegations of forgery or misrepresentation.
  • Justin S Stern of Frigon Maher & Stern LLP and Julia B. Klein of Klein LLC represented Mr. Yenni and the Fund.

Citizens for Judicial Fairness Applauds Nomination of N. Christopher Griffiths To Be Second Black Delaware Supreme Court Justice in History; Urges Further Diversification from Governor John Carney

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Friday, April 14, 2023
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Said civil rights icon Reverend Al Sharpton, “Today, we celebrate the appointment of Chris Griffiths, a prominent Black attorney, to the highest court in Delaware. Tomorrow, we get right back to work to elevate many more like Chris Griffiths to important judgeships across Delaware's courts. The fight for diversity and inclusion is more than a righteous struggle to ensure more Black leaders have positions of power after centuries of exclusion -- it's a fundamentally American ideal that the institutions that shape the laws and policies that govern us must include voices from all of our communities. This is how we make real the promise of the Constitution's loftiest principles, and this is the fight we must continue into the future -- even as we take inspiration now from Chris Griffiths' well-deserved nomination."

Key Points: 
  • Said Keandra McDole, activist and Citizens for Judicial Fairness spokesperson, "N. Christopher Griffiths' nomination to be the second Black justice ever on the Delaware Supreme Court is a victory for all of us who have organized for courts that look like us rather than the all-white courts of old.
  • The Chancery Court remains all-white and Black justices continue to be drastically underrepresented in our state's top courts.
  • Said civil rights icon Reverend Al Sharpton, “Today, we celebrate the appointment of Chris Griffiths, a prominent Black attorney, to the highest court in Delaware.
  • Tomorrow, we get right back to work to elevate many more like Chris Griffiths to important judgeships across Delaware's courts.

Citizens for Judicial Fairness Launches St. Patrick’s Day Ad Exposing Chancery Court Shenanigans and Enrichment of Court Insiders like Bouchard, Pincus, and Strine

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Friday, March 17, 2023
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Today, Citizens for Judicial Fairness announced the launch of a new print advertising campaign on St. Patrick’s Day criticizing Delaware legal insiders for their profiteering off of their Chancery Court connections.

Key Points: 
  • Today, Citizens for Judicial Fairness announced the launch of a new print advertising campaign on St. Patrick’s Day criticizing Delaware legal insiders for their profiteering off of their Chancery Court connections.
  • The advertisement demonstrates how elites like former Chancery Court Chancellor Andre Bouchard, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Leo Strine, and multi-time Chancery Court-appointed Custodian Robert Pincus have earned pots of gold based on their court connections at the expense of everyday Delawareans.
  • For well-connected insiders, the Chancery Court’s long rainbow ends in pots of gold that fund their lavish lifestyles at the expense of Delaware taxpayers.
  • While legal insiders like Robert Pincus, Andre Bouchard, and Leo Strine make pots of gold, Delaware citizens are left out in the cold.

Citizens for Judicial Fairness Slams Delaware Chancery Court After Approval of Ongoing Overbilling by Skadden Arps

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Monday, March 6, 2023
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This motion adds to the handful of cases of the Delaware Chancery Court encouraging Skadden Arps casual entitlement to charge companies excessive fees.

Key Points: 
  • This motion adds to the handful of cases of the Delaware Chancery Court encouraging Skadden Arps casual entitlement to charge companies excessive fees.
  • AutoLotto’s attorney confirmed that Skadden allegedly billed for charges “unrelated to and beyond the scope of the action.”
    The Delaware Court of Chancery and Skadden Arps have a long history of similar cases with unscrupulous charges.
  • In response to the continued overbilling, Citizens for Judicial Fairness released the following statement: “The habitual conniving of Skadden Arps and the Chancery Court disregards everyday people and subsidizes extravagant legal elites.
  • The long-standing corrupt relationship between Skadden Arps and the Chancery Court lays siege to the concept that Delaware’s courts are anything but self-serving and corrupt.

Altaba Announces Liquidating Distribution of $0.96 Per Share

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Thursday, February 9, 2023
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Altaba Inc. (“Altaba” or the “Fund”) today announced that the Board approved a liquidating distribution of $0.96 per share of the Fund’s common stock, par value $0.001 per share, or $498,730,911 in the aggregate (the “Liquidating Distribution”), which will be payable on February 17, 2023.

Key Points: 
  • Altaba Inc. (“Altaba” or the “Fund”) today announced that the Board approved a liquidating distribution of $0.96 per share of the Fund’s common stock, par value $0.001 per share, or $498,730,911 in the aggregate (the “Liquidating Distribution”), which will be payable on February 17, 2023.
  • On January 20, 2023, Altaba and Emily Larocque filed, and the Chancery Court granted, a stipulated order setting the final holdback for the putative class action claim asserted by Emily Larocque in Saskatchewan, Canada, arising from the security incidents that took place between 2013 and 2016, which involved stolen Yahoo!
  • The Liquidating Distribution represents a partial distribution of the remaining assets of the Fund.
  • Further information regarding the amount and timing of any subsequent liquidating distributions to stockholders will be provided in subsequent press releases or filings with the SEC as such information becomes available.

Cronyism Crushes Inclusion Yet Again in Latest Chancery Court Appointment

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Thursday, January 5, 2023
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"The Chancery Court is as large as it's ever been, yet remains -- like the entire Delaware judiciary -- overwhelmingly white. This isn't just a missed opportunity to build a fair court system -- it's the continuation of an entrenched system where the rich and powerful law firms like Skadden amass and wield judicial power. Everyone else is shut out of the process, with their noses pressed against the window as key decisions that affect the lives of all Delarareans every single day are handed down imperiously," said prominent Wilmington advocate Keandra McDole. "It's a slap in the face."

Key Points: 
  • There are country clubs with more diversity than this powerful court," said civil rights icon Reverend Al Sharpton.
  • "The Chancery Court is as large as it's ever been, yet remains -- like the entire Delaware judiciary -- overwhelmingly white.
  • The pointed controversy over the David appointment comes on the heels of intense public pressure on Delaware Gov.
  • John Carney to make diverse appointments to two current openings on the state Supreme Court.