Hoggett v. Brown

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that a trial court has inherent power to control the disposition of cases on its docket “with economy of time and effort”
• “A director’s fiduciary duty runs only to the corporation, not to individual shareholders or even to a majority of the shareholders.”
• “A director’s fiduciary duty runs only to the 13 corporation, not to individual shareholders or even to a majority of the shareholders.”
• \[A] co-shareholder in a closely held corporation does not as a matter of law owe a fiduciary duty to his co-shareholder.\
• “The constitutional roots of justiciability doctrines such as ripeness, as well as standing ..., lie in the prohibition on advisory opinions, which in turn stems from the separation of powers doctrine.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).