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· 9/16/1987

Schick Inc. v. Amalgamated Clothing & Textile Workers Union

Citations

  • 533 A.2d 1235
  • 1987 Del. Ch. LEXIS 538
  • 1987 WL 20844

How courts have described this case

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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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