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You Can’t Dress Up Harassment as a Fiduciary-Duty Claim

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fter employment claims ran their course, a stockholder tried a new angle: dressing up workplace harassment as a fiduciary-duty lawsuit. The court wasn’t persuad

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. TL;DR: A court dismissed with prejudice a stockholder derivative lawsuit that tried to reframe a director’s and former officer’s workplace harassment as a breach of the duty of loyalty. The court held that the alleged misconduct was interpersonal and governed by employment and tort law, not

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