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 Acting on a request by a California federal appeals court, the justices confirmed Tuesday that a "fraud exception" in Delaware law doesn't allow for the revival of a 2007 federal lawsuit. This exception to the Delaware law has never been applied.
The law requires continuous ownership of a company's stock for shareholders to pursue claims on behalf of a company, usually against officers and directors. But the shareholders didn't have that
-- a California judge had ruled that the 2008 acquisition by Charlotte, N.C.-based Bank of America eliminated the Countrywide shareholders' standing to pursue their lawsuit.
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