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LEWIS v. WARD

No. 567,2003.

852 A.2d 896 (2004)

Shirley LEWIS, Plaintiff Below, Appellant, v. Milton H. WARD, Allen Born, Gerald J. Malys, Rockwell A. Schnabel, Vernon F. Taylor, Jr., Russell L. Wood, Cyprus Amax Minerals Company and Amax Gold, Inc., Defendants Below, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

Decided: June 16, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph A. Rosenthal, Rosenthal, Monhait, Gross & Goddess, Wilmington, DE and Irving Bizar (argued) and A. Arnold Gershon, P.C., Ballon, Stoll, Bader & Nadler, P.C., New York City, for appellant, Shirley Lewis.

Kenneth J. Nachbar, William M. Lafferty (argued) and Susan D. Wood, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell, Wilmington, DE, for appellees, Vernon F. Taylor, Jr. and Russell L. Wood.

David C. McBride, Young, Conaway, Stargatt & Taylor, Wilmington, Delaware, for appellees, Milton H. Ward, Allen Born and Gerald L. Malys.

Thomas P. Preston,Blank Rome, L.L.P., Wilmington, DE, for appellee, Amax Gold, Inc.

Joel Friedlander and Karen L. Pascale, Bouchard, Margules & Friedlander, Wilmington, DE, for appellees, Cyprus Amax Minerals Company.

Before STEELE, Chief Justice, HOLLAND and BERGER, Justices.

HOLLAND, Justice:

Shirley Lewis, the plaintiff-appellant, is a former shareholder of Amax Gold, Inc. ("Amax Gold"). The plaintiff brought this derivative action nearly seven years ago, challenging the fairness of a transaction between Amax Gold and its then majority stockholder, Cyprus Amax Minerals Company ("Cyprus"). While the litigation was pending in the Court of Chancery, Amax Gold merged with and into a subsidiary of...

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