Disney directors face shareholder scorn
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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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Shareholdersâ demands to make directors more accountable are getting results.
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Walt Disney chief executive Michael Eisner told a court yesterday that the troubles of his former colleague Michael Ovitz were rooted in a sense of elitism, pointing
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GEORGETOWN, Del.  - Walt Disney Co.'s chief  executive Michael Eisner on Wednesday was confronted with notes  in which Michael Ovitz was called "dangerous" and "a caged  animal" as he desperately tried to fire his one-time friend  from the entertainment giant.
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WILMINGTON, Del. -- A Delaware corporate law judge Wednesday heard a plea from attorneys for former Walt Disney Co. president Michael Ovitz that asks to remove Ovitz from the list of defendants in a shareholder
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Michael Ovitz said he fought and begged to stay on at Walt Disney Co. until his good friend and boss Michael Eisner pushed him out, the former Disney president, now at the center of a shareholder lawsuit, testified on Wednesday.
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As Walt Disney Co. directors meet today to start grappling with the process of replacing Chief Executive Michael Eisner, one man who has not roamed the halls in eight years is casting his shadow over the discussions.
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WILMINGTON, United States : 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
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The California Public Employees&#39; Retirement System and three other heavyweight institutions are turning up the heat on The Walt Disney Co.
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GEORGETOWN, Del.  - Walt Disney Co.'s board of  directors went on trial on Wednesday, on shareholder  accusations that it merely rubberstamped a decision to hire  Michael Ovitz and allowed him to walk away months later with a  $140 million severance package.
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GEORGETOWN, Del.  - Walt Disney Co. should have  fired Michael Ovitz because of his "substantial and repeated  dishonesty," a legal expert testified on Thursday in support of  shareholders suing the Disney board over Ovitz's receipt of a  $140 million severance package.
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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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October 20, 2004 - A lawsuit by shareholders against the Walt Disney Company looks like it&#39;ll have all the trappings of a high-profile Hollywood legal drama.
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LOS ANGELES - The lawsuit shareholders have brought against Disney has come to resemble a Hollywood potboiler of betrayed friendships, secret meetings and wounded egos.
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US regulators yesterday accused Walt Disney of violating securities laws by failing to disclose compensation given to relatives of its directors and payments
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An unlikely feud is seeing the film empire that built its name on cartoons for children -- the giant Disney corporation -- at odds with Britain&#39;s most famous hospital for sick children.
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Walt Disney Co's DIS.N board on  Thursday said it has made permanent the policy to separate the  roles of chief executive and chairman, responding to criticism  and requests from shareholders.