Supreme Court of Delaware, 2000

The court reversed the Family Court and held that clear and convincing evidence established the biological father's abandonment of Christopher and that termination of both parents' rights served Christopher's best interests.

The Delaware Supreme Court affirmed the Court of Chancery's dismissal of a stockholder derivative complaint attacking the Disney board's approval of Michael Ovitz's lavish 1995 employment agreement and its 1996 non-fault termination payout, because the complaint pleaded conclusions rather than the particularized facts…