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ROVEN v. COTTER

C.A. No. 9840.

547 A.2d 603 (1988)

Alfred ROVEN, Plaintiff, v. James J. COTTER, Joel A. Cassel, Edward L. Kane, Samuel S. McCarver, Ralph B. Perry, III, James A. Taylor, Alfred Villasenor, Jr., and Citadel Holding Corporation, a Delaware corporation, Defendants.

Court of Chancery of Delaware, New Castle County.

Decided: May 27, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Franklin Balotti (argued), Gregory V. Varallo, Joseph J. Bodnar, and Robert J. Shaughnessy, of Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington; Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, New York City, of counsel, for plaintiff.

William O. LaMotte, III (argued), Thomas R. Hunt, Jr., and Brett D. Fallon, of Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell, Wilmington; Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Los Angeles, Cal., of counsel, for defendants.

MOORE, Justice [Sitting by Designation Pursuant to Del. Const. art. IV, § 13(2)].

Alfred Roven, a director of Citadel Holding Corporation, has sued to enjoin certain corporate actions ultimately intended to remove him without cause from Citadel's presently classified board of directors. The novel issue before me is whether 8 Del.C. § 141 (1983 and Supp.1987), and Essential Enterprises Corp. v. Automatic Steel Products, Inc., Del.Ch.,

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