Case Title: Hollinger, Inc. v. Hollinger International

Citation: 

Docket Number: 331, 2004

State: delaware

Court: Delaware Supreme Court

Date: 2004-07-29T00:00:00Z

Document:
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE 
 
 
 
HOLLINGER, INC., A CANADIAN § 
CORPORATION, AND 504468 
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N.B. INC., A NEW BRUNSWICK 
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CORPORATION,  
 
 
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Plaintiffs Below,  
 
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Appellants,  
 
 
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v. 
 
 
 
 
 
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No. 331, 2004 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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HOLLINGER INTERNATIONAL 
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Court Below:  Court of 
INC., A DELAWARE   
 
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Chancery, in and for New 
CORPORATION,  
 
 
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Castle County, in C.A. No. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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543-N. 
     Defendant Below, 
 
 
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     Appellee. 
 
 
 
 
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Submitted:  July 29, 2004 
Decided:  July 29, 2004 
 
Before STEELE, Chief Justice, HOLLAND and JACOBS, Justices. 
 
O R D E R 
 
 
This  29th   day of July, 2004, at approximately 11:00 p.m., it appears 
to the Court that: 
1) 
The plaintiffs-below/appellants, Hollinger, Inc. and 504468  
N.B. Inc., have applied to this Court for an order certifying an appeal from 
an interlocutory decision of the Court of Chancery entered on July 29, 2004. 
2) 
On July 29, 2004, at approximately 5:30 p.m., the Court of  
 
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Chancery refused the appellants’ Application to Certify an Interlocutory 
Appeal and also denied the appellants’ Motion for an Injunction Pending 
Appeal.   
3) 
On July 29, 2004, at approximately 6:55 p.m., the appellants  
filed a Notice of Appeal from Interlocutory Order, Motion to Expedite, and 
Motion for Injunction Pending Appeal. 
4) 
The appellants are appealing the Court of Chancery’s  
interlocutory decision denying a Motion for Preliminary Injunction.   
5) 
In the Court of Chancery, the appellants sought the injunction  
to prevent the closing of the $1.2 billion sale of Telegraph Group, Ltd., 
which is set to occur tomorrow, July 30, 2004 at 10:00 a.m. London, 
England time (4:00 a.m. EDT). 
6) 
The appellee filed responses to the appellants’ application  
for certification and other motions on July 29, 2004 at approximately 8:10 
p.m. 
7) 
This Court has considered the Application to Certify an  
Interlocutory Appeal and other motions filed by the appellants.  This Court 
has also considered the responses thereto that were filed by the appellee and 
the 92-page interlocutory opinion of the Court of Chancery dated July 29, 
2004, which denied the appellants’ Motion for Preliminary Injunction.   
 
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8) 
The Court of Chancery determined that the appellants had not 
met their burden of establishing the probability of success on the merits of 
their claims that the appellants and all other shareholders of Hollinger 
International Inc. were entitled to vote on the sale of the Telegraph Group, 
Ltd., pursuant to §271 of the Delaware General Corporation Law or on 
equitable grounds. 
9)       Applications for interlocutory review are addressed to the  
sound discretion of this Court.  This Court has conferred and, in the exercise 
of its discretion, it has concluded that the appellants’ application for 
interlocutory review should be refused. 
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, that the  
appellants’ Application to Certify an Interlocutory Appeal from the July 29, 
2004, 92-page decision of the Court of Chancery is REFUSED.  The Clerk is 
directed to issue the mandate of this Court immediately. 
BY THE COURT: 
 
 
s/  Randy J. Holland 
    Justice