In December 2025, Vice Chancellor Will dismissed a derivative claim against a director whose sexual harassment of employees had produced roughly $1.6 million in liability for the corporation. Such “interpersonal” conduct, she held in Brola v. Lundgren, was “not a matter of corporate internal affairs,” and “[t]he legal system provided a remedy for his wrongdoing through New York’s employment laws.” She warned against turning the duty of loyalty into “a general morality code” and inviting “doctrinal sprawl” that would reach “a breakroom fistfight, a defamatory social media post, or theft of office supplies.”

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