A quiet week in Texas. Then Delaware opened the Dropbox file. 117 opinions, ten judges reappointed, and the questions Texas-bound boards should ask.
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THE HILLTOP DOCKET
ISSUE No. 13 · A RESEARCH PUBLICATION OF THE SMU CORPORATE GOVERNANCE INITIATIVE
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TEXAS BUSINESS COURT · WEEK IN REVIEW · AUGUST 10, 2026
A quiet week in Texas. Then Delaware opened the Dropbox file.
The Texas Business Court published no new opinions this week — the corpus is closing out year two at 117 published opinions, with all ten judges reappointed to terms beginning September 1.
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So Issue No. 13 opens a file we will be keeping: the Delaware file. The amended stockholder complaint seeking to unwind Dropbox’s Delaware-to-Nevada conversion — six counts, a §220 record, and a theory built to climb over Maffei v. Palkon — read against Maffei, Rutledge, and Ayers, every case linked to the official opinion and every filing to EDGAR.
For Texas-bound boards, the issue asks the questions that matter — why move, why now, who benefits, who evaluated it, and which state controls the journey.
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Leave on a clear day. If you leave under a cloud, Delaware may try to pull you back.
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Also in this issue: the full dockets-and-calendar section — every setting linked to the live monitor card, the opinion that set the deadline, and the docket of record.
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— Shane Goodwin, Ph.D., LL.M.
Executive Director, SMU Corporate Governance Initiative
Professor of Practice in Finance, SMU Cox · Adjunct Professor of Law, SMU Dedman
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