C & J Energy Services, Inc. v. City of Miami General Employees'

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• recognizing that equitable relief overriding the counterparty’s contract rights is available where the counterparty aided and abetted sell-side breach
• recognizing that equitable relief overriding the counterparty’s contract rights is available where the counterparty aided and abetted sell-side breach
• holding that, “[t]o issue a mandatory injunction requiring a party to take affirmative action . . . the Court of Chancery must either hold a trial and make findings of fact, or base an injunction solely on undisputed facts”
• observing that “[m]andatory injunctions” are orders of the court “requiring a party to take affirmative action,” and holding that such relief “should only issue with the confidence of findings made after a trial or on undisputed facts”
• instructing trial courts not to divest third parties of their contract rights absent a sufficient showing that the contract resulted from a fiduciary breach and that the counterparty aided and abetted the breach
• instructing trial courts not to divest third parties of their contract rights absent a sufficient showing that the contract resulted from a fiduciary breach and that the counterparty aided and abetted the breach

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