IN RE GEN. MOTORS CLASS E STOCK BUYOUT SEC. LIT.

Master File No. Misc. 87-47.

694 F.Supp. 1119 (1988)

In re GENERAL MOTORS CLASS E STOCK BUYOUT SECURITIES LITIGATION.

United States District Court, D. Delaware.

September 7, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clark W. Furlow of Lassen, Smith, Katzenstein and Furlow, Wilmington, Del., Liaison Counsel, Nicholas E. Chimicles and Alfreda L. Verratti of Greenfield & Chimicles, Haverford, Pa., Lead Counsel, Michael J. Freed and Kenneth A. Wexler of Much Shelist Freed Denenberg Ament & Eiger, P.C., Robert A. Holstein and Stephanie Whitman of Holstein, Mack & Dupree, Marvin A. Miller and Patrick Cafferty of Washlow, Chertow & Miller, Frederic F. Brace, Jr. and Ellen A. Rubel of Law Offices of Frederic F. Brace, Jr., Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs.

William O. LaMotte, III and Thomas Reed Hunt, Jr. of Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell, Wilmington, Del., Stephen C. Neal, Robert J. Kopecky and Helen E. Witt of Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago, Ill., Michael J. Basford and Louis H. Lindeman, Jr., General Motors Corp., Detroit, Mich., for defendant General Motors Corp.

E. Norman Veasey, R. Franklin Balotti and Thomas A. Beck, of Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, Del., Dennis J. Block, Irwin H. Warren, Stephen A. Radin and Timothy E. Hoeffner of Weil, Gotshal & Manges, New York City, for General Motors Corp. Director defendants except Donald J. Atwood, F. James McDonald, Lloyd E. Reuss, F. Alan Smith, Roger B. Smith, and Robert C. Stempel.

Grover C. Brown and Barbara MacDonald of Morris, James, Hitchens & Williams, Wilmington, Del., Roy F. Reardon and Joseph F. Tringali of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, New York City, for General Motors Director defendants Donald J. Atwood, F. James McDonald, Lloyd E. Reuss, F. Alan Smith, Roger B. Smith, and Robert C. Stempel.

Bruce M. Stargatt and David C. McBride of Young, Conaway, Stargatt & Taylor, Wilmington, Del., Thomas D. Barr, Evan R. Chesler and Christopher M. Mason of Cravath, Swaine & Moore, New York City, Thomas W. Luce, III and M. David Bryant, Jr. of Hughes & Luce, Dallas, Tex., for defendant H. Ross Perot.


OPINION

MURRAY M. SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.

Plaintiff shareholders filed class and derivative claims against General Motors Corporation ("GM") as a nominal defendant, certain directors of GM, and H. Ross Perot, former director of GM and former chairman of the board of Directors of Electronic Data Systems ("EDS"). They contest GM's purchase of GM Class E stock and contingent note from Perot and three other EDS officers...

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