LEWIS v. SPORCK

No. C 84-20343 WAI.

612 F.Supp. 1316 (1985)

Harry LEWIS, Derivatively On Behalf of NATIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation, Plaintiff, v. Charles E. SPORCK, Peter J. Sprague, Donald E. Weeden, Robert Beshar, Harry H. Wetzel, Neil Goldschmidt, John R. Finch, Pierre R. Lamond, F. Joseph Van Poppelen, Charles C. Cushing, Robert Berryman, Walter R. Conway, Frank Traenkle, E. Floyd Kvamme, David N. Martin, David Turner, William Cox, James Doodey, J. Philip Russell, Patrick Verderico, E. Joseph Willits, and National Semiconductor Corporation, a Delaware corporation, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. California.

April 9, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William S. Lerach, Specthrie & Lerach, San Diego, Cal., Joseph W. Cotchett, Cotchett & Illston, San Mateo, Cal., for plaintiff.

Seymour Kurland, Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-Cohen, Philadelphia, Pa., Richard Haas, Lasky, Haas, Cohler & Munter, San Francisco, Cal., for defendants.


ORDER

INGRAM, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

In this shareholder derivative action, plaintiff Lewis is suing on behalf of National Semiconductor Corporation ("NSC") to recover for NSC the damages it has suffered because of the allegedly unlawful activities of certain of its present and former directors, officers, and employees.

The acts on which this suit is based stem from two essentially separate series of

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