They split these broadly into cases where managers breached their duty of care doing something idiotic like buying AOL at the peak of the tech bubble, or a subprime originator in 2006 and those where they breached their duty of loyalty, a more serious offense where managers put their personal interests ahead of shareholders.

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Off duty and on, Sinn Fein sources insist that decommissioning would bring a split which would sweep Mr Adams away.

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Boies further split Sotheby's from Alfred Taubman, its former chairman and largest shareholder, by invoking the directors' fiduciary duty to sue Taubman for the scheme.

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