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Court of Chancery Limits Inspection When Prior Case Filed

Amalgamated Bank v. NetApp Inc., C.A. 6772-VCG (February 6, 2012)

The interaction between two cases in two jurisdictions is again examined in this decision. The court held that a Section 220 books and records case may not be pursued to provide discovery to support the amendment of a complaint in a case pending elsewhere when the time to amend that complaint has passed.  The mere possibility that the time to amend may be extended is not enough to get under the rule in the King decision that permitted a books and records action to proceed when the right to amend a complaint was still present.

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