{"schema_version":"secwatch.filing_event.v1","accession":"0000940394-23-000239","form_type":"8-K","ticker":"EVT","cik":"0001253327","company_name":"Eaton Vance Tax-Advantaged Dividend Income Fund","filed_at":"2023-02-01T23:59:59+00:00","discovered_at":"2026-05-14T18:03:44.141561+00:00","generated_at":"2026-06-20T03:31:10.271714+00:00","sec_items":["8.01","9.01"],"event_type":"regulatory","sentiment":"negative","materiality_score":0.75,"calibrated_materiality_score":0.75,"confidence":"high","headline":"Eaton Vance Tax-Advantaged Dividend Income Fund exempts control share acquisitions after court ruling","bullets":["On Jan 23, 2023, Massachusetts Superior Court ruled that the control share by-law violates Section 18(i) of the Investment Company Act.","Board of Trustees voted on Jan 26, 2023 to exempt all prior and new purchases from the control share by-law going forward.","Court granted Saba Capital Master Fund's claim for rescission of the by-law; litigation is ongoing.","The by-law was adopted in 2020 to deter activist investors; now invalidated by court for one of the four funds in the lawsuit.","The exemption applies to all 24 Eaton Vance closed-end funds including EVT, EFR, EFT, and EVV."],"urls":{"canonical":"https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000940394-23-000239","json":"https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000940394-23-000239.json","markdown":"https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000940394-23-000239.md","text":"https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000940394-23-000239.txt","edgar_index":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1253327/000094039423000239/0000940394-23-000239-index.htm","edgar_primary_document":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1253327/000094039423000239/evt8k.htm"},"model":{"generated_by":"deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2","generated_at":"2026-06-20T03:31:10.271714+00:00"},"review":{"review_status":"machine_generated","human_reviewed":false,"corrected":false,"correction_note":null,"correction_timestamp":null,"superseded_by":null,"related_filings":[]},"source_grounded_claims":[],"license":"Source filings: public domain (SEC EDGAR). Summaries (headline + bullets): CC-BY-4.0; attribute https://secwatch.observer"}