The judge who will decide whether Elon Musk should buy Twitter Inc. he has a track record of quickly deciding urgent cases on corporate deals in jeopardy and has ordered buyers to close deals they wanted out of.
Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick, a 42-year-old who loves Notre Dame football and co-founded a charter school her children attended, is at the center of one of the biggest cases to hit the special court of Delaware business law: Twitter’s lawsuit against Mr. Musk’s move to abandon his commitment to buy the company for $44 billion. She will decide the verdict, not a jury, and her decision could set a new standard for when buyers can and can’t walk away from deals.