The superior court dismissed plaintiff's shareholder derivative action under the "business judgment rule" after a compensation committee appointed by the corporation's board of directors determined that it was in the best interests of the corporation to terminate the lawsuit. (See Gaines v. Haughton (9th Cir.1981)
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