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HARHEN v. BROWN

431 Mass. 838 (2000)

LORETTA M. HARHEN v. STEPHEN L. BROWN & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

June 27, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey B. Rudman (Daniel P. Tighe with him) for Stephen L. Brown & others.

Alan B. Morrison, of the District of Columbia (Jason B. Adkins with him) for the plaintiff.

Morris M. Goldings, for Raeburn B. Hathaway, Jr., was present but did not argue.

Thomas R. Kiley & Thomas B. Drohan, for F. William Sawyer, submitted a brief.

Loretta M. Smith, for Associated Industries of Massachusetts, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., ABRAMS, LYNCH, GREANEY, IRELAND, & COWIN, JJ.

IRELAND, J.

The plaintiff, a policyholder of John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company (Hancock), made demand on Hancock's board of directors to commence litigation, alleging that the defendants, certain directors and employees of Hancock, had harmed Hancock by participating in or acquiescing in illegal lobbying of members of the Massachusetts Legislature. The board, a majority of whose members were disinterested, refused the plaintiff's demand through its committee...

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