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MILLER v. THOMAS

No. 1-94-0131.

656 N.E.2d 89 (1995)

275 Ill.App.3d 779

211 Ill.Dec. 897

Bertha MILLER and Fred Steinlauf, Derivatively on Behalf of Commonwealth Edison Company, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Bide L. THOMAS; James J. O'Connor; Byron Lee, Jr.; George E. Johnson; Jean Allard; Donald P. Jacobs; Harvey Kapnick; Edward A. Mason; Patrick G. Ryan; James W. Compton; Lando W. Zech, Jr.; Thomas G. Ayers; Commonwealth Edison Company, an Illinois Corporation; Gordon R. Corey; Wallace B. Behnke, Jr.; Albert B. Dick III; Norris A. Aldeen; A. Dean Swift; William Wood Prince; Brooks McCormick; Joseph S. Wright; John A. Barr; Edward Byron Smith; Eugene P. Wilkinson; and Thomas L. Martin, Jr., Defendants-Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Fifth Division.

September 22, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Much, Shelist, Freed, Denenberg & Ament, P.C., Chicago (Michael J. Freed, Edith F. Canter and William H. London, of counsel), Chimicles, Jacobsen & Tikellis, Haverford, PA (Michael Gottsch, of counsel), for appellants.

Kevin M. Forde, Ltd., Chicago (Kevin M. Forde, of counsel), Pope, Cahill & Devine, Chicago (William R. Quinlan, of counsel), Jenner & Block, Chicago (Nicholas D. Chabraja, David C. Bohan, and Robert L. Denby, of counsel), for appellees.

Presiding Justice COUSINS delivered the opinion of the court:

The plaintiffs, Bertha Miller and Fred Steinlauf, filed a shareholder derivative suit on behalf of Commonwealth Edison Company (Edison) against the defendants—present and former directors of Edison since 1975—alleging breaches of duty in their management of the construction of nuclear power plants. The complaint also alleged that the current directors (board) breached their fiduciary duties...

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