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Block Inc.'s board may have made a bad deal when it acquired music-streaming company Tidal, but that's its right without evidence of bad faith, Delaware Chancery Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick decided. City of Coral Springs Police Officers' Pension Plan v. Dorsey, 2022-0091.
Chancellor McCormick's opinion dismissed derivative claims brought against Block and its board by the plaintiff shareholder, a pension fund for the city of Coral Springs, FL, which was represented by Saxena White. It's a win for the Richards, Layton & Finger and Gibson Dunn & Crutcher team that represented Block; founder, chairman and CEO Jack Dorsey, and 10 other board members.
She also noted: "Block facilitates payment processing and helps individuals transfer money electronically; it had never ventured into the music streaming industry and, at the time it acquired TIDAL, had no plans to do so,"
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