In Celauro v. Celauro, 2025 N.Y. Slip Op. 04870 (Sept. 10, 2025), a minority shareholder of a family-owned business alleged that company executives operated an illicit cash business, diverted profits and deprived shareholders of distributions/dividends. The motion court dismissed most of the breach of fiduciary duty claim, finding many of the allegations to be time-barred under the six-year statute of limitations and the surviving claims too speculative.

It has long been the law that the business judgment rule applies to the decisions made by boards of directors of residential cooperatives and condominiums.

By Jeffrey M. Haber From time to time, this Blog has written about lawsuits involving corporations, including those brought as shareholder derivative actions (here). As this Blog explained, a derivative action is a lawsuit brought by a shareholder of a company, on behalf, and for the benefit, of the company to enforce or defend a legal right or claim. Derivative actions seek the recovery of damages and/or equitable relief arising from unlawful or improper conduct engaged in b

By Jeffrey M. Haber Jane is a shareholder in ABC Co. Over the past three years, the company has been losing money, due in large part to an increase in expenses. Jane learns the truth about the company’s financial condition and discovers that senior managers of the company are reporting their personal use of the company’s jet, cars and houses as a business expense. Because of management’s failure to properly report the use of company property, the company’s expenses have skyro