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MEADE v. CHRISTIE

No. 21-0098.

974 N.W.2d 770 (2022)

Kendall J. MEADE, Individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Appellee, v. Peter S. CHRISTIE, Stephen A. Crane, Jonathan R. Fletcher, and Gretchen H. Tegeler, Appellants, and EMC Insurance Group, Inc., Bruce G. Kelley, and EMCC Casualty Company, Defendants.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Filed May 27, 2022.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael W. Thrall (argued), Mark C. Dickinson , Lynn C. Herndon , and Angel A. West (until withdrawal) of Nyemaster Goode, P.C., Des Moines, for appellants.

Juan Monteverde (argued) of Monteverde & Associates PC, New York, New York, and Gary Dickey of Dickey, Campbell, & Sahag Law Firm, PLC, Des Moines, for appellee.

William C. Brown of Brown, Winick, Graves, Gross and Baskerville, P.L.C., Des Moines, for amici curiae Iowa Association of Business and Industry and the Iowa Business Council.

McDermott, J., delivered the opinion of the court in which all justices joined.

This appeal involves a shareholder's challenge to a corporate merger involving the purchase of a publicly traded company's shares in what's known as a "going private transaction." The shareholder alleges that the corporation's directors abdicated their fiduciary duties by agreeing to a flawed merger process with the acquirer...

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