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IN RE J.P. MORGAN CHASE & CO.

No. 218, 2005.

906 A.2d 766 (2006)

In re J.P. MORGAN CHASE & CO. SHAREHOLDER LITIGATION, Bruce T. Taylor, as custodian for Julia Ann Taylor, Ronda Robins and George Ziegler, Plaintiffs Below, Appellants, v. William B. Harrison, Jr., Hans W. Becherer, Riley P. Bechtel, Frank A. Bennack, Jr., John H. Biggs, Lawrence A. Bossidy, M. Anthony Burns, Ellen V. Futter, William H. Gray, III, Helene L. Kaplan, Lee R. Raymond, John R. Stafford, and J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Defendants Below, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

Decided: March 8, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Seth D. Rigrodsky (argued), Ralph N. Sianni and Brian D. Long, Esquires, of Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman LLP, Wilmington, Delaware; Steven G. Schulman, Richard Weiss and Laura Gundersheim, Esquires, of Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman LLP, New York, New York; Of Counsel: Peter D. Bull, Esquire, of Bull & Lifshitz, LLP, New York, New York; for Appellants.

Jesse A. Finkelstein, Michael R. Robinson and Lisa Z. Brown, Esquires, of Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, Delaware; Of Counsel: Michael A. Cooper (argued), Sharon L. Nelles and Keith Levenberg, Esquires, of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, New York, New York; Nancy E. Schwarzkopf, Esquire, of JP Morgan Chase, New York, New York; for Appellee Harrison.

Before STEELE, Chief Justice, HOLLAND, BERGER, JACOBS and RIDGELY, Justices, constituting the Court en Banc.

JACOBS, Justice.

The plaintiffs, who are stockholders of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. ("JPMC"), brought this purported class action for money damages in the Court of Chancery, challenging a merger in which JPMC acquired Bank One Corporation ("Bank One") in July 2004. The plaintiffs claimed that the JPMC directors had breached their fiduciary duties by: (1) approving a merger exchange ratio that paid an unnecessary and excessive...

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