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

Master File No. 87-47-SLR.

790 F.Supp. 77 (1992)

In re GENERAL MOTORS CLASS E STOCK BUYOUT SECURITIES LITIGATION.

United States District Court, D. Delaware.

April 30, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clark W. Furlow, of Smith, Katzenstein & Furlow, Wilmington, Del., Liaison Counsel, Nicholas E. Chimicles and M. Katherine Meermans, of Greenfield & Chimicles, Haverford, Pa., Lead Counsel, Michael J. Freed and Kenneth A. Wexler, Esquire, 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 the Law Offices of Frederic F. Brace, Jr., Chicago, Ill., co-counsel, 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., for defendants General Motors Corp. and Electronic Data Systems Corp., Michael J. Basford and Louis H. Lindeman, Jr., of General Motors Corp., Detroit, Mich., of counsel, for defendant General Motors Corp.

Thomas A. Beck, of Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, Del., Dennis J. Block, Irwin H. Warren, Stephen A. Radin and Kenneth J. Ashman, of Weil, Gotshal & Manges, New York City, for General Motors Corp. Director defendants Anne L. Armstrong, Catherine B. Cleary, James H. Evans, Walter A. Fallon, Charles T. Fisher, III, Marvin L. Goldberger, John J. Horan, Howard H. Kehrl, Thomas A. Murphy, Edmund T. Pratt, Jr., James D. Robinson, III, John G. Smale, Leon H. Sullivan, Dennis Weatherstone and Thomas H. Wyman.

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

Bruce M. Stargatt and David C. McBride, of Young, Conaway, Stargatt & Taylor, Wilmington, Del., for defendant H. Ross Perot; Evan R. Chesler and Thomas G. Rafferty, of Cravath, Swaine & Moore, New York City, of counsel.


OPINION

ROBINSON, District Judge.

INTRODUCTION

Plaintiff shareholders filed, inter alia, 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"). Plaintiffs challenged the repurchase by GM of stock and related contingent notes from H. Ross Perot and other EDS officers...

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