"[C]onstrained by Delaware Supreme Court precedent"?

Following up on both Elizabeth's post announcing that Chief Justice Myron T. Steele of the Delaware Supreme Court would be speaking at Stanford, and Josh's post on the Glom's Masters Forum on Chancellor William B. Chandler III's contributions to the Delaware Chancery Court, I note the following:

Over at the Glom, Afra Afsharipour discusses Chancellor Chandler's Airgas decision and notes that "like other commentators … I expected that Chancellor Chandler would uphold the pill. What I didn’t quite expect was Chancellor Chandler’s frank articulation of how decades of Delaware case law on the poison pill essentially gave him no choice but to reach the result that he did."

Meanwhile, a report from a recent panel discussion on cross-border issues in mergers and acquisitions notes that Chief Justice Steele interprets the case law differently:

Steele took issue with the view that the Chancery is constrained in its ability to remove a pill in the appropriate circumstances. He suggested that if the chancellor had found facts that were inconsistent with it being reasonable to keep the pill in place, an injunction against maintaining the pill could be issued under Delaware law. Where there is a battle of valuations, rather than the defence of a long-term strategy, a case can be made for removing the pill and letting the shareholders decide.

SJP