AllThingsD » shareholder lawsuit http://allthingsd.com Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:29:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://allthingsd.com/theme/images/logo-rss.jpg All Things Digital http://allthingsd.com/ 144 22 Mark Hurd Appeals Order to Release the Fisher Letter http://allthingsd.com/20110405/mark-hurd-appeals-order-to-release-the-fisher-letter/ http://allthingsd.com/20110405/mark-hurd-appeals-order-to-release-the-fisher-letter/#comments Tue, 05 Apr 2011 18:22:34 +0000 Arik Hesseldahl http://newenterprise.allthingsd.com/?p=4731 Oracle President Mark Hurd has appealed a ruling by a judge in Delaware ordering the public release of a redacted version of the letter that brought an end to his tenure as CEO of Hewlett-Packard, according to Bloomberg News. On March 17, Delaware Chancery Court Judge Donald Parsons Jr. ordered HP to release the letter as part of an ongoing shareholder suit against that company. Hurd’s lawyers have appealed to the Delaware Supreme Court. Hurd has argued that the letter, which contains contractor Jodie Fisher’s allegations of sexual harassment, is personal.

]]> http://allthingsd.com/20110405/mark-hurd-appeals-order-to-release-the-fisher-letter/feed/ 1 Apple Sells Off on Holder Suit; Feeling Jumpy, Are We? http://allthingsd.com/20080703/apple-sells-off-on-holder-suit-feeling-jumpy-are-we/ http://allthingsd.com/20080703/apple-sells-off-on-holder-suit-feeling-jumpy-are-we/#comments Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:02:29 +0000 Eric Savitz http://voices.allthingsd.com/?p=1848 Apple (APPL) shareholders: you need to get a grip.

On Wednesday, AAPL sold off on news that the company, CEO Steve Jobs, former CFO Fred Anderson, former general counsel Nancy Heinen and several Apple board members were hit with a purported class-action lawsuit in federal court in San Jose related to the company’s stock-options backdating scandal. Shareholder lawsuits always sound scary, but there’s nothing to this that holders don’t already know: the company admitted that some options were backdated, but both Apple and Jobs have avoided any federal prosecution. Anderson settled SEC charges related to the situation; litigation by the Commission against Heinen is pending.

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