United States Fifth Circuit

A corporate officer is not entitled to indemnification under Delaware law for acts committed for his own benefit before he was employed by the corporation, where he was not sued "by reason of the fact" that he was an officer of the potential indemnitor.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/24/2002
• Published 04/24/2002

Judges

• EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge:, Before JONES and DeMOSS, Circuit Judges, and FELDMAN, District Judge: 

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• R. Mark Dietz,Jerry Lee Jarrard, Jr., Dietz & Associates, Round Rock, TX, David Howard Donaldson, Jr. (argued), Paul Skeith, George & Donaldson, Austin, TX, Michael Paul Massad, Jr., Sheinfeld, Maley & Kay, Dallas, TX, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Eric Jay Taube (argued), Gina Marie Joseph, Hohmann & Taube, Austin, TX, for Appellees.