{"id":311,"date":"2025-08-11T13:52:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T17:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/delawarebusinesslaw\/?p=311"},"modified":"2025-08-11T13:52:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T17:52:28","slug":"delaware-supreme-court-clarifies-standards-applicable-to-books-and-records-demands-under-section-220-of-the-delaware-general-corporation-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/delawarebusinesslaw\/2025\/08\/11\/delaware-supreme-court-clarifies-standards-applicable-to-books-and-records-demands-under-section-220-of-the-delaware-general-corporation-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Delaware Supreme Court Clarifies Standards Applicable to Books-and-Records Demands Under Section 220 of the Delaware General Corporation Law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Please see the Duane Morris alert [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/delaware_supreme_court_clarifies_standards_applicable_books_records_demands_section_220_0825.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/delaware_supreme_court_clarifies_standards_applicable_books_records_demands_section_220_0825.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>] addressing a recent decision of the Supreme Court of Delaware.  The court provides guidance on the pleading standards a stockholder must satisfy in order to show a &#8220;credible basis to infer wrongdoing&#8221; to state a proper purpose for an inspection of corporate books and records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please see the Duane Morris alert [here] addressing a recent decision of the Supreme Court of Delaware. The court provides guidance on the pleading standards a stockholder must satisfy in order to show a &#8220;credible basis to infer wrongdoing&#8221; to state a proper purpose for an inspection of corporate books and records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[75,115],"ppma_author":[153],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-books-and-records","tag-section-220"],"authors":[{"term_id":153,"user_id":108,"is_guest":0,"slug":"rlrenck","display_name":"Richard L. Renck","avatar_url":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/delawarebusinesslaw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2014\/08\/renckrichard-125x150.jpg","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/delawarebusinesslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/delawarebusinesslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/delawarebusinesslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/delawarebusinesslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/delawarebusinesslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/delawarebusinesslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/delawarebusinesslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/delawarebusinesslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/delawarebusinesslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/delawarebusinesslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}