In a struggle over a charitable corporation founded to help oppressed people in war-torn regions of Sudan, the Delaware Court of Chancery found that director was validly removed from the board and that he lacked standing to challenge the prior removals of two other board members or the elections of three new members.
Bishop Gassis was involved with the formation of the the Sudan Relief Fund, Inc. (f/k/a Bishop Gassis Sudan Relief Fund Inc.). He was the face of the charity, directing the charitable works on the ground in Sudan and he was the designated chairman of the board. Gassis alleged that starting in 2010, five members of the board began scheming to force him out of the fund. The defendants assesrted that, motivated by their fiduciary duties to the fund’s beneficiaries, they were planing a smooth transition when Gassis left the charity, in accordance with the fund’s bylaws, contemporaneous with his mandatory retirement as a bishop with the Catholic church, in accordance with applicable canon law.
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