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LEWIS v. VOGELSTEIN

Civil Action No. 14954.

699 A.2d 327 (1997)

Harry LEWIS, Plaintiff, v. John L. VOGELSTEIN, Edward H. Malone, William D. Rollnick, John W. Amerman, Jill E. Barad, Harold Brown, James A. Eskridge, Tully M. Friedman, Ronald M. Loeb, Edward N. Ney, Christopher A. Sinclair and Mattel, Inc., Defendants.

Court of Chancery of Delaware, New Castle County.

Decided: March 7, 1997.

Revised: March 11, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph A. Rosenthal, and John G. Day, of Rosenthal, Monhait, Gross & Goddess, P.A., Wilmington; A. Arnold Gershon, P.C., New York City, Of Counsel, for Plaintiff.

Daniel A. Dreisbach, and Luke E. Dembosky, of Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, for Defendants.

ALLEN, Chancellor.

This shareholders' suit challenges a stock option compensation plan for the directors of Mattel, Inc., which was approved or ratified by the shareholders of the company at its 1996 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. Two claims are asserted.

First, and most interestingly, plaintiff asserts that the proxy statement that solicited shareholder proxies to vote in favor of the adoption of the 1996 Mattel Stock Option Plan ("1996 Plan" or "Plan")...

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