Disney shareholders to get their day in court
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Walt Disney Co. shareholders are to finally get their day in court, seven years after suing the company for allegedly wasting corporate assets by buying out the contract of former president Michael Ovitz for 140 million dollars.
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Georgetown, Delaware, October 21: A lawsuit against the Walt Disney Co over a 140 million-dollar payout to former President Michael Ovitz started here, seven years after shareholders brought the action.
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With a bankruptcy court scheduled to hear on Dec. 2 arguments by US Airways Group Inc. to throw out contracts covering union workers who haven&#39;t approved new deals, union leaders for the carrier&#39;s customer
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The Supreme Court is about to plunge into an agenda laden with issues affecting the business sector. Tobacco companies, the biotech industry and operators of coal-fired power plants have a stake in cases the court will hear in the next month.
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The Supreme Court is meeting to issue decisions and hear arguments in a case involving allegations of retaliation against a worker who complained of racial discrimination.
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GEORGETOWN, Del., Oct. 28 -- Plaintiffs in a shareholder lawsuit over former Walt Disney Co. president Michael Ovitz's $140 million severance package attempted Thursday to portray Ovitz as a dishonest bumbler who botched the hiring of a major television executive and pushed the release of a movie that angered the Chinese government, damaging Disney's business prospects in the country.
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Michael D. Eisner is probably the only man in the world who can get away with wearing a Mickey Mouse tie while testifying in a high-stakes corporate trial in Delaware&#39;s dignified Court of Chancery in Georgetown.
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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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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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Defense lawyers in the Walt Disney trial on Friday tried to undermine the credibility of a witness who testified that company directors neglected their oversight
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A Delaware court next Monday will begin considering the shareholder lawsuit over the $140 million severance that Walt Disney paid its former president Michael S. Ovitz.
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Four of the biggest U.S. public  pension funds said on Tuesday they would press for the right to  have shareholders nominate directors to Walt Disney Co.'s  DIS.N board of directors.
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GEORGETOWN, Del.  - Walt Disney Co.'s board of  directors went on trial on Wednesday, accused by shareholders  of rubberstamping a decision to hire Michael Ovitz and allowing  him to walk away months later with a $140 million severance  package.
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Michael Ovitz hopes getting his day in court fixes his battered career and tarnished image. Ovitz testified for the fifth day in the trial that has Disney shareholders shooting
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Thousands of families that allege vaccines caused their children's autism are preparing for their day in court, which could bring them vindication and compensation.
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Walt Disney Co. , the second-largest US media company, is facing a new legal front in its battle over the right to the Winnie the Pooh characters.
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Plaintiffs say they expect to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court a case that exonerated the I.B.M. CorporationÂs cash-balance pension plan.