See ABA,Model Business Corporation Act (hereinafter MBCA),3rd edition,Official Text,Tevised through 21302,§8.60(4).
See Principles§5.02(a)(1)Comm.;MBCA§8.61 Off.Comm
现行California州
公司法虽然在此用到“善意(in good faith)”一词,但该词的意义完全不同于在:Delaware州法律中的意义。后者一般会引发商业判断规则,要由原告证明被告不具有“善意”。而California州的“善意”是按照“统一商法典(U.C.C.)”中的解释,仅指在进行商业行为时“诚实(honesty)”,并不要求“合理性”,更多地是一种宣示性的要求,所以也不会发生由原告证明被告不具备“诚实”的情况。See Cal.Corp.Code§310Cross Reference;U.C.C.§1—201(20).
See Cal.Corp.Code§310(a)(1) &Legislative Committee Comm.
See Mary A.Jacobson,Interested Director Transaction and the(Equivocal)Effects of Shareholder Ratification,21 Del.J.Corp.L.981.1002— 1013(1996).See also Krystal Pfluger Scott,A Catch—22 or a Catch—All?:Delaware and Texas Grasp for Certainty in Shareholder Ratification,8 Duq.B.L.J.117,131—136(2006).
See。Michelson v.Duncan,407 A.2d 211,219(Del.1979).
See,Smith v.van Gorkom,488 A.2d 858,888(DeJ.1985).1n re Sama Fe Pacific Corp.,No.13,587(Cons.),(1995 Transfer Binder )Fed. Sec.L.Rep.(CCH)98,845,at 93,089,reprinted fn 20 DeJ.Corp.L at 1117(quoted in Mary A..Jacobson,supra n.38,at 1104).
See Bershad v.Curtiss—Wright Corp.,535 A.2d 840,842(Dd.1987).
In re Wheelabrator Technologies,Inc.Shareholders Litig.,663 A.2d1194,1203(Del.Ch.1995)(hereinafter WheelabratorⅢ);See also 8 Del.c.§144HISTORY(2006).
WheelabratorⅢ,id.,1203.
ln re Walt Disney Co.Derivative Litig.,731 A.2d 342,368(Dd.Ch.1998).
See,Companies Act 1985 ss.319—320.
See 17 CFR 240.14a—8.
John C.Coffee,Jr.,Liquidity versus Control:The Institutional Investor as Corporate Monitor,91 Colum.L.Rev.1277,1328(1991).
See Deborah A.Demott,The Figure ln the Landscape:A Comparative Skeleton of Directors’Self—Interested Transactions,62 Law &Contemp. Prob..243(.1999).
See California Legislative Assembly Select Committee on the of the Corporation Code,Revision Report of the Assembly Select Committee on the Revision of the Corporation Code,55(1975).
See Dennis J.Block,Nancy E.Barton,& Stephen A.Radin,The Business.Judgment Rule:Fiduciary Duties of Corporate Directors(5th ed.),New York,Aspen Law&Business,1998,p.18—32.
Code&Co.V.Technicolor,Inc.,634 A.2d 345,365(Del.1993)(quoting Fliegler v.Lawrence,361 A.2d 218,222(Del.1976)).
E.g.,Cede & Co.v.Technicolor,lnc.,634 A.2d 345(Del.1993);Nixon v.Blackwell,626 A.2d 1366,1376 n.7(Del.1993);Oberly v.Kirby,592 A.2d 445(Del.1991);Marciano V.Nakash,535 A.2d 400(Del.1987)(quoted in Kenneth B.Davis Jr.,Approval by Disinterested Directors,20 10wa J.corp.L.215,217(1995)).