In re Rural/Metro Corporation Stockholders Litigation

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• noting that the General Assembly enacted the Delaware Uniform Contribution Among Tortfeasors Act in order to abolish \the common law ban on contribution\ among joint tortfeasors
• explaining that the Court considered exculpation even though the parties “did not ask the court to rule on the availability of exculpation”
• recognizing ability of “one or more joint tortfeasors to settle on behalf of themselves and another joint tortfeasor and then pursue that joint tortfeasor for its share of the settlement payment”
• choosing perpetuity growth rate falling “comfortably between” inflation rate and nominal GDP growth rate, at 160 basis point premium to inflation
• noting that Delaware contribution statutes require a conscious act
• accepting the doctrine of unclean hands where defendant made a showing of fraud

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