DISNEY v. WALT DISNEY CO.

C.A. No. 234-N.

857 A.2d 444 (2004)

Roy E. DISNEY, Plaintiff, v. The WALT DISNEY COMPANY, Defendant.

Court of Chancery of Delaware, New Castle County.

Decided: August 6, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Gilchrist Sparks, III, S. Mark Hurd, Andrew H. Lippstone, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell, Wilmington, DE; Stephen D. Alexander, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, L.L.P., Los Angeles, CA, for the Plaintiff.

Robert K. Payson, Donald J. Wolfe, Jr., Stephen C. Norman, Potter Anderson & Corroon, L.L.P., Wilmington, DE; Theodore N. Mirvis, Paul K. Rowe, Robin M. Wall, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New York City, for the Defendant.


OPINION AND ORDER

LAMB, Vice Chancellor.

I.

A stockholder who obtained books and records of a Delaware corporation for the purpose of investigating suspicions or mismanagement or waste of corporate assets now wishes to publicly disseminate certain information found in those documents as part of that stockholder's ongoing campaign to effect changes in the corporation's senior management. The information at issue is not otherwise publicly...

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