Twyman v. Hess

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• setting forth criteria for attributing evidentiary weight to an internal report
• affirming trial court’s exclusion of plaintiffs’ proffered expert testimony on the ordinary standards against which the actions of boards of directors and investment bankers would be measured because such evidence would impinge on the function of the trial court
• policy of resisting all acquisition offers does not violate federal securities law absent deceptive conduct
• plaintiff may not bootstrap a fiduciary duty case into securities fraud by alleging failure to disclose the breach of duty
• so long as state law regulates activities of defendants, they are exempt from antitrust laws by virtue of McCarran-Ferguson
• Normal duties of a director and payment of normal director’s fees insufficient to show interest or lack of independence

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