One of the key claims of advocates of stakeholder capitalism, especially those in the legal academy, is that the foundational case – Dodge v. Ford Motor Co. – was not good law when it was first written, the key part of the decision, is mere dicta, and subsequent legal developments have undercut whatever validity the decision may have had at one time. All of these claims are demonstrably false. As Chief Justice Leo Strine put it, those who claim that shareholder value maximization is not the law are pretending.