94 Or. App. 604 - Chiles v. Robertson’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions

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1. “[tissues of whether a corporate officer or controlling shareholder has fulfilled fiduciary duties have arisen in a number of circumstances and have led to the creation of various specific rules. Opinions pile phrase upon phrase in what appears to some observers to be a mere compilation of platitudes. Yet those platitudes express something deeper; they are a judicial attempt to emphasize that the heart of a corporate fiduciary’s duty is an attitude, not a rule. The fiduciary best fulfills its duties if it approaches them with the attitude of seeking the beneficiary’s interests rather than the personal interests of the fiduciary, not if it simply tries to follow rules codified from past decisions.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Warehime v. Warehime

2. “Issues of whether a corporate officer or controlling shareholder has fulfilled fiduciary duties have arisen in a number of circumstances and have led to the creation of various specific rules.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 209 Or. App. 120 - Dalton v. Robert Jahn Corp.