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(1) A local or subordinate law; a private law or regulation made by a corporation for its own governing.
(2) A law that is less important than a general law or constitutional provision, and subsidiary thereto; a rule relating to a matter of detail; as in, civic societies often adopt a constitution and by-laws for governing their members.
 
Medspeak
A standing rule which governs the regulations of a society’s internal affairs—e.g., voting rights, attendance at meetings, membership, termination of membership, contracting rights and procedures for income distribution.
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Adopting and invoking fee-shifting bylaws presents such a circumstance where the omnipresent specter of self-interest taints the board's action and thus must satisfy the test from Unocal.
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First, Section 109(b) of the DGCL permits an exclusive forum selection bylaw because it allows a corporation's bylaws to "contain any provision, not inconsistent with law or with the certificate of incorporation, relating to the business of the corporation, the conduct of its affairs, and its rights or powers or the rights or powers of its stockholders, directors, officers, or employees." The court held that forum selection bylaws "easily meet these requirements." Second, forum selection provisions are enforceable against stockholder plaintiffs, even though the bylaws were board-enacted, because bylaws are part of a flexible contractual relationship between stockholders and a corporation.
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CACCN Annual General Meeting 2013
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Travis Laster, acknowledged the usefulness of exclusive-forum bylaws and alluded to his court's expertise in the March 2010 opinion in In re Revlon Shareholders Litigation.
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