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A Texas federal judge dismissed a derivative suit claiming Southwest Airlines' board breached its fiduciary duties by abandoning the carrier's iconic "Bags Fly Free" policy. The ruling marks a significant early test of the state's amended Business Organizations Code (TBOC), which now provides Texas corporations with some of the nation's strongest protections for board-level decisions.
The TBOC's amended Section 21.401 codifies a business judgment rule that shifts the burden to plaintiffs in ways that go beyond Delaware's common-law standard. Under the new framework, directors are presumed to have acted in good faith, on an informed basis, and in the honest belief that the action was in the corporation's best interest. A plaintiff must plead particularized facts sufficient to overcome that presumption before discovery even opens.
This matters for in-house counsel because it changes the calculus around board process and documentation. In Delaware, a well-documented board process is good practice. In Texas, it may now be outcome-determinative at the motion-to-dismiss stage. The Southwest ruling suggests that Texas courts will enforce the statutory presumption aggressively, making the quality of your board's deliberative record the front line of derivative defense.
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