Delaware County Employees Retirement Fund v. Sanchez

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• holding that plaintiff is entitled to reasonable inferences when resisting a motion to dismiss under Rule 23.1
• holding that at the pleading stage this Court is “bound to draw all inferences from those particularized facts in favor of the plaintiff, not the defendant, when dismissal of a derivative complaint is sought”
• finding that a longstanding business relationship, with a large economic benefit, supported an inference that a director was not independent from the CEO’s family
• noting that the director and the controller had been “close friends for more than five decades”
• noting that a director’s job as an executive at a subsidiary of a corporation over which the controller had “substantial influence, as the largest stockholder, director, and Chairman” required a pleading stage inference that the director was not independent
• inferring at pleading stage that director fees of $165,000 were material where they allegedly constituted 30% to 40% of defendant’s total annual income

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