VonFeldt v. Stifel Financial Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that courts interpreting Delaware’s indemnification statute should “eschew [a] narrow construction of the statute” that fails to promote the policy of encouraging qualified men and women to serve corporations without fear of ruinous legal fees
• noting that when interpreting an ambiguity, “it is proper to search for guidance in legislative history”
• noting that when interpreting an ambiguity, “it is proper to search for guidance in legislative history”
• noting that equitable and promissory estoppel are “based on similar principles”
• explaining that advancement rights “encourag[e] capable women and men to serve as corporate directors and officers, secure in the knowledge that the corporation will absorb the costs of defending their honesty and integrity”
• requiring on-the-record inquiry to determine whether waiver of counsel is knowing, intelligent, and voluntary

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).