Vice Chancellor Joseph R. Slights III allowed CBS stockholders to continue with their claims against successor ViacomCBS in perhaps the only Court of Chancery document comparing a merger between two multibillion-dollar corporations to a 1960s band’s success.

Slights’ 159-page opinion published Wednesday compared the perspectives of CBS and Viacom shareholders to the sometimes adversarial perspectives given by Brian Wilson and Mike Love of the Beach Boys, declining the majority of ViacomCBS’s motion to dismiss claims involving the merger.

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