Supreme Court Asked to Consider No-Action Letters
As if the process for excluding shareholder proposals wasn’t confusing enough, now the Supreme Court could weigh in. Trinity Wall Street has petitioned it to review a 2014 appellate court ruling, which found that a proposal requiring that Walmart’s board review the retailer’s policy on gun sales encroached upon “ordinary ...
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