BLACK & DECKER CORP. v. AMERICAN STANDARD INC.

Civ. A. No. 88-50 LON.

679 F.Supp. 1183 (1988)

The BLACK & DECKER CORPORATION, a Maryland corporation, and B & D Acquisition Inc., a Maryland corporation, Plaintiffs, v. AMERICAN STANDARD INC., a Delaware corporation, and Charles M. Oberly, III, Attorney General of the State of Delaware, and Michael E. Harkins, Secretary of State of State of Delaware, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Delaware.

February 23, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven D. Goldberg, of Theisen, Lank, Mulford and Goldberg, Wilmington, Del., of counsel, George Beall (argued), Mark D. Gately (argued) and Ty Cobb, and John H. Culver, III of Miles & Stockbridge, Baltimore, Md., for plaintiffs.

R. Franklin Balotti (argued), Jesse A. Finkelstein, Gregory V. Varallo, C. Stephen Bigler, James C. Strum and Daniel A. Dreisbach, of Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, Del., of counsel, John L. Warden, Gandolfo V. DiBlasi, Samuel W. Seymour, and Karen Patton Bogle, of Sullivan & Cromwell, New York City, for defendant American Standard Inc.

A. Gilchrist Sparks, III (argued), Kenneth J. Nachbar, Michael Houghton, and Robert J. Valihura, Jr., of Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell, Wilmington, Del., for defendants Oberly and Harkins.

Beverly L. Bove, John E. Sullivan, and Cassandra Faline Kaminski, of Tomar, Seliger, Simonoff, Adourian & O'Brien, Wilmington, Del., of counsel, Robert F. O'Brien, and Mark E. Belland, Haddonfield, N.J., amicus curiae.


OPINION

LONGOBARDI, District Judge.

The Black & Decker Corporation ("Black & Decker") and B & D Acquisition Inc. ("B & D Acquisition" sometimes both collectively referred to as "Black & Decker"), an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary, filed a lawsuit against American Standard Inc. ("American Standard"), Charles M. Oberly, III, Attorney General of the State of Delaware, and Michael E....

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