RP ACQUISITION CORP. v. STALEY CONTINENTAL, INC.

Civ. A. No. 88-190-JRR.

686 F.Supp. 476 (1988)

RP ACQUISITION CORPORATION, Plaintiff, v. STALEY CONTINENTAL, INC.; Charles M. Oberly, III, Attorney General, State of Delaware and Michael E. Harkins, Secretary of State of Delaware, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Delaware.

May 9, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven D. Goldberg, of Theisen, Lank, Mulford & Goldberg, Wilmington, Del., for plaintiff.

Charles S. Crompton, Jr., Peter M. Sieglaff, Gregory A. Inskip, and Steven C. Norman, of Potter, Anderson & Corroon, Wilmington, Del., for defendant Staley Continental, Inc.

Grover C. Brown, Edward M. McNally, and Mary M. Johnston, of Morris, James, Hitchens & Williams, Wilmington, Del., for defendants Oberly and Harkins.

Daniel L. Goelzer, Jacob H. Stillman, Eric Summergrad, and Rada L. Potts, Washington, D.C., for the S.E.C., amicus curiae, Paul Gonson, Solicitor, of counsel.


OPINION

ROTH, District Judge.

In BNS Inc. v. Koppers Company, Inc., 683 F.Supp. 458 (D.Del.1988), this Court confronted the question of whether the recently enacted Delaware Business Combinations statute, Del. Code Ann. tit. 8, § 203 (1988), violated the Supremacy or Commerce Clauses of the United States Constitution. On a meager evidentiary record, Judge Schwartz...

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