McGowan v. Empress Entertainment, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• finding that a corporation acted in bad faith in denying a director the right to inspect the corporation’s books and records by falsely promising the director it would produce the requested books and records and forcing the director to file suit when it did not
• “A subset of this ‘bad faith’ exception is that attorneys’ fees may be awarded if it is shown that the defendant’s conduct forced the plaintiff to file suit to secure a clearly defined and established right.” (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)

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