GRIES SPORTS ENTERPRISES, INC. v. CLEVELAND BROWNS FOOTBALL CO.

No. 85-704.

26 Ohio St. 3d 15 (1986)

GRIES SPORTS ENTERPRISES, INC. ET AL., APPELLANTS, v. CLEVELAND BROWNS FOOTBALL CO., INC. ET AL., APPELLEES.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided August 20, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ulmer, Berne, Laronge, Glickman & Curtis and Marvin L. Karp, for appellants.

McNeal, Schick, Archibald & Biro and Robert D. Archibald, for appellee Cleveland Browns Football Co., Inc.

Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Patrick F. McCartan, Robert C. Weber and Katherine B. Jenks, for appellees Bailey, Berick, Cole and Modell et al.


WISE, J.

The issue to be decided by this court is whether or not the record contains any competent, credible evidence which supports the findings of the trial court that the board of directors of the Browns could not successfully claim the protection of the business judgment rule and, therefore, with the presumption stripped away, whether the evidence supports the finding of the trial court that the acquisition of CSC was not intrinsically fair to the corporation...

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