· 9/16/1987
Schick Inc. v. Amalgamated Clothing & Textile Workers Union
Citations
- 533 A.2d 1235
- 1987 Del. Ch. LEXIS 538
- 1987 WL 20844
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- concluding the plaintiff would “be required to bear no hardship if it must await the filing of a derivative claim to litigate its assertion”
- noting that courts must weigh “special considerations relating to the efficient use of judicial resources” and avoid a “waste of judicial resources” when exercising declaratory judgment jurisdiction
- noting the putative defendant would “bear no hardship if it must await the filing of a derivative claim to litigate its assertion that” the putative plaintiff lacked standing
- contrasting an unripe declaratory judgment claim on a putative plaintiff’s standing against a claim that a putative plaintiff “is barred by limitations or laches from asserting the substantive claim”
- “Employment of the declaratory judgment procedure solely to achieve tactical advantage should not be endorsed.”
- “[T]here are questions of law which need further elucidation in the more factually developed context . . . .”
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Judges: Allen
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