The Delaware Supreme Court has held that the Delaware Chancery Court acted within its discretion when it ordered a letter detailing allegedly inappropriate behavior by a corporate executive to be unsealed because the executive did not establish "good cause" to maintain the letter’s confidentiality.

InHurd v. Espinoza and Hewlett-Packard Co., former Hewlett-Packard Chief Executive Officer Mark V. Hurd appealed a prior Chancery Court decision to unseal a letter in which a former HP contractor, Jodie Fisher, is said to have alleged that Hurd sexually harassed her.

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