Delaware Fiduciary Duty Law after Qvc and Technicolor: A Unified Standard (and the End of Revlon Duties?).

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Lawrence A. Cunningham

University of Delaware

Charles M. Yablon

Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

Abstract

This Article seeks to analyze and understand Paramount Communications, Inc. v. QVC Network, Inc. and Cede & Co. v. Technicolor, Inc. as part of a movement in Delaware fiduciary law toward a single, more unified standard, away from doctrinal fragmentation. In addition, the Article considers Delaware law leading up to QVC and Technicolor, tracing both the growing fragmentation of Delaware law in the 1980s and the growing judicial concern about fragmentation. This Article will argue that the concern over fragmentation and the desire for a unified standard were not the result of external pressures or policy concerns, but of internal judicial concerns about potential inequity, manipulability and lack of coherence in Delaware law. Finally, this Article will look at the practical significance of these new cases and the seeming trend toward a more unified conception of fiduciary law.

Keywords: QVC Network, Paramount Communications, Technicolor, Incorporated, Cede and Company, Delaware state law, fiduciary law, doctrinal fragmentation, Revlon duty

Suggested Citation

Cunningham, Lawrence A. and Yablon, Charles M., Delaware Fiduciary Duty Law after Qvc and Technicolor: A Unified Standard (and the End of Revlon Duties?).. Business Lawyer, Vol. 49, pp. 1593-1628, 1994, Boston College Law School Research Paper No. 1994-03, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=917120

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