In re Activision Blizzard, Inc. Stockholder Litigation

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that the right to vote is a “classic example[]” of a contract right associated with shares
• noting that a direct claim for breach of corporation's organizing instrument can exist \to enforce contract rights that stockholders possess\
• explaining that a tort claim for fraud does not “arise out of the relationship between the stockholder and the corporation”
• noting that large incentive awards may raise “the specter of . . . an improper lawyer-client entanglement”
• explaining that a tort claim for fraud does not “arise out of the relationship between the stockholder and the corporation”
• noting that an alleged infringernent of a shareholder's voting rights ordinarily constitutes a direct claim

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