Karen L. Valihura

{{Short description|American judge (born 1963)}}

{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Karen Valihura

|office = Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court

|appointer = Jack Markell

|term_start = June 6, 2014

|term_end =

|predecessor = Jack B. Jacobs

|successor =

|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1963|5|16}}

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|party = Republican

|education = Washington and Jefferson College (BA)
University of Pennsylvania (JD)

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Karen Lynn Valihura{{Cite web |title=Karen Lynn Valihura Profile {{!}} Wilmington, DE Lawyer {{!}} Martindale.com |url=https://www.martindale.com/attorney/karen-l-valihura-343737/ |access-date=2025-01-31 |website=www.martindale.com}} (born May 16, 1963) is an American lawyer who serves as a justice of the Delaware Supreme Court.{{cite web|url=https://courts.delaware.gov/supreme/justices.stm |title=Supreme Court Justices |access-date=February 13, 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150212044102/http://courts.delaware.gov/Supreme/justices.stm |archive-date=February 12, 2015 }} She was appointed on June 6, 2014. Prior to her appointment, Valihura was a partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP.{{Cite web|url=https://courts.delaware.gov/Supreme/justices.stm |title=Judicial Officers of the Delaware Supreme Court |website=courts.delaware.gov |access-date=2016-03-15 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150212044102/http://courts.delaware.gov/Supreme/justices.stm |archive-date=February 12, 2015 }}

In October 2018, Justice Valihura dissented when the majority found that the business judgment rule protected a controlling shareholder even though he did not offer minority shareholder protections until after his initial squeeze-out bid.{{Bluebook journal |first=|last=Note| title=Recent Case: MFW Conditions Are in Place “Before Any Substantive Economic Negotiations” in Controlling Shareholder Transactions| volume=132 | journal=Harv. L. Rev. | page=2386 | url=http://harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/2386-2393_Online.pdf| year=2019}}{{cite court |litigants=Flood v. Synutra International, Inc.|vol=195 |reporter=A.3d|opinion=754 |court=Del.|date=2018)(en banc|url= https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=15185581281002041459|accessdate=}}