deadlocked

Unable to agree.

Corporation.

Deadlock in a closely held corporation arises when a control structure permits one or more factions of shareholders to block corporate action if they disagree with some aspect of corporate policy. A deadlock often arises with respect to the election of directors, e.g., by an equal division of shares between two factions, but may also arise at the level of the board of directors itself. Term as used in statute empowering court to dissolve corporation when directors are deadlocked, means corporation which, because of decision or indecision of stockholders, cannot perform its corporate powers. Kollbaum v. K & K Chevrolet, Inc., 196 Neb. 555, 244 N.W.2d 173, 177.

See Rev.Model Bus.Corp. Act No. 14.30(2) (involuntary dissolution at request of shareholder).

Jury.

Jury which cannot agree on verdict; sometimes called "hung jury". Trial court should not repeatedly give an "anti-deadlock" instruction to "deadlocked jury," which is one which trial judge has concluded is genuinely deadlocked, giving due consideration to such things as nature and complexity of trial issues, duration of trial, length of jury deliberations, and representations of jury to court about state of deliberations. Epperson v. U.S., D.C.App., 495 A.2d 1170, 1172.

See also dynamite instruction