Shareholders Vs Disney's Board Opens
73838
GEORGETOWN, Del.  - Walt Disney Co.'s DIS.N  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.
36364
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.
651366
The Federal Communications Commission kicks off the first of six planned public hearings Tuesday to discuss a number of broadcast ownership rules, including whether a single company should be able to own both a newspaper and a television station in the same market.
358055
Despite a clear-cut show of support among its shareholders to accept Oracle&#39;s hostile takeover bid, PeopleSoft&#39;s board is digging in for a fight.
169979
The showdown at Disney (DIS ) may not happen after all. Dissident former board members Stanley Gold and Roy Disney said on Sept. 28 that they support the board&#39;s accelerated search for a new CEO, making it
68384
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.
377839
The Walt Disney Co. board of directors received rare praise Tuesday from its biggest critics, Roy E. Disney and Stanley Gold, who say they support having an outside firm help find the successor to CEO Michael D. Eisner.
507683
Disney boss Michael Eisner faces opposition about his plan to step down in 2006, with some shareholders saying it should be sooner.
229516
Global media group News Corp. has launched a shareholders&#39; rights plan to protect shareholders&#39; interests if any attempt is made to wrest control from executive chairman Rupert Murdoch and his family.
352576
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.
753524
Lawyers for investors suing Walt Disney Co. questioned whether chief executive Michael Eisner held a formal meeting to tell board members there were
233935
Directors at Walt Disney nominated Michael Ovitz to serve on its board for three years at a 1996 meeting just weeks before forcing him out of his job as president, Ovitz told a Delaware court yesterday.
117526
Walt Disney Co.'s  board of directors on Thursday said it has made permanent the policy to separate the roles of chief executive and chairman.
638916
Four of the largest US public pension funds on Tuesday said they would ask Walt Disney Co. shareholders to change company policy to let investors nominate two independent directors to the board.
148644
Walt Disney Co. DIS.N dissident  shareholders Roy Disney and Stanley Gold said they would  withhold votes for the company board at the annual meeting this  Friday to step up pressure on the search to replace Chief  Executive Michael Eisner.
455330
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.
449951
An American Idol attraction where the public can audition before an audience is to open at a Disney theme park.