DEMOULAS v. DEMOULAS SUPER MARKETS, INC.


424 Mass. 501 (1997)

ARTHUR S. DEMOULAS v. DEMOULAS SUPER MARKETS, INC., & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

March 13, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward J. Barshak for Telemachus A. Demoulas & others.

Judith Gail Dein for Glorianne D. Farnham & another.

Gary C. Crossen for Frances D. Kettenback.

Robert C. Gerrard (Anthony R. Pelusi, Jr., Carol R. Cohen & Thomas S. Fitzpatrick with him) for Arthur S. Demoulas.

Jerome Gotkin, John Paul Sullivan, Peter A. Biagetti & A. W. Phinney, III, for Demoulas Super Markets, Inc., submitted a brief.

Thomas J. Dougherty, George J. Skelly & James R. Carroll for D. Harold Sullivan, submitted a brief.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., ABRAMS, LYNCH, GREANEY, & MARSHALL, JJ.


GREANEY, J.

The plaintiff, Arthur S. Demoulas, commenced a shareholder derivative action on behalf of Demoulas Super Markets, Inc. (DSM), and Valley Properties, Inc. (Valley), against the defendants, alleging that the defendants had wrongfully, and in breach of fiduciary duties, usurped corporate opportunities that should have been presented to DSM and Valley. A Superior Court judge sitting without a jury presided over a complex, and at times contentious, trial lasting...

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