Highland Select Equity Fund, L.P. v. Motient Corp.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that Delaware’s corporate records statute “is certainly not meant to be a forum for the kinds of wide-ranging document requests permissible under Rule 34 [governing discovery]”
• holding the plaintiff’s multiple amendments to its demand reflected a lack of precision that, in turn, suggested the plaintiff had not articulated a proper purpose in the first place
• “Section 220 is an important stockholder right that, by statute, this court is directed to resolve in a summary proceeding.”
• “All of [the elements of Section 220] are underlined by a clear requirement that a Section 220 plaintiff has a responsibility to make its demand in good faith . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).