Disney&#39;s board on trial
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To many observers, there is plenty of entertainment value in the $2 million suit that Walt Disney investors have filed against the company&#39;s board for allegedly rubberstamping the severance package of the company&#39;s former president, Michael Ovitz.
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GEORGETOWN - Walt Disney company officials will appear in the Court of Chancery in Georgetown starting Wednesday. Shareholders are suing Disney and former president Michael Ovitz.
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The hearings could lead to one of the biggest corporate trials in Italian history, involving the dairy group&#39;s former executives, bankers and auditors.
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GEORGETOWN: Walt Disney&#39;s board of directors went on trial, accused by shareholders of rubberstamping a decision to hire Michael Ovitz and allowing him to walk away months later with a $140m severance package.
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Former Walt Disney Co. President Michael Ovitz&#39;s $140 million severance was &#39;&#39;unreasonable&#39;&#39; because it exceeded what executives at other companies received, a compensation expert testified Monday in a trial
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Description: In a closely watched trial in Delaware, former Hollywood agent Michael Ovitz took the stand yesterday to defend his tenure as president of the Walt Disney Company in the mid-&#39;90s.
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The company faces a pivotal clinical trial.
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(OfficialWire) -- 10/22/04 -- The board of the Walt Disney Company went on trial Wednesday, facing shareholder accusations that it simply rubber-stamped a decision
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The first criminal trial against any former Enron Corp. employees is scheduled to begin today in Houston. The case is against two ex-Enron workers and four former Merrill Lynch &amp; Co.
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The shareholder lawsuit against Disney leadership took a melodramatic turn Thursday as a plaintiffs&#39; lawyer accused former president Michael Ovitz of leaking
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WILMINGTON, Del.  - The trial pitting software  giant Oracle Corp. against unwilling takeover target PeopleSoft  Inc. drew near a close on Friday as the last witness in the  case, a PeopleSoft board member, took the stand.
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This round of corporate trials is focusing on bad behavior and loose ethics. Key prosecution witnesses are being grilled about their drug use, tax problems and sex lives in an attempt to undermine their credibility.
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The trial of a lawsuit by Walt Disney Co. shareholders who accuse the board of directors of rubberstamping a deal to hire Michael Ovitz
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The actor Sidney Poitier became a witness in the trial of a suit against Walt Disney directors on Tuesday, and in so doing, he transformed a Delaware courtroom
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GEORGETOWN, Del. -- Lawyers Friday challenged an account of allegedly excessive spending by former Walt Disney Co. president Michael Ovitz on dinners, magazines, a home screening room and a $2 million office renovation.
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A lawyer for Michael S. Ovitz, the former president of the Walt Disney Company, argued Wednesday that his client should be excused as a defendant in a lawsuit
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The courtroom drama of shareholders vs. Disney&#39;s battling Mikes - Michael Ovitz and Michael Eisner â-as become a can&#39;t-miss reality show for entertainment industry executives.