HICKS EX REL. UNION PACIFIC CORP. v. LEWIS


148 S.W.3d 80 (2004)

Ethel HICKS, et al., derivatively on behalf of UNION PACIFIC CORPORATION, v. Drew LEWIS, et al.

Court of Appeals of Tennessee, Western Section, at Jackson.

October 7, 2003.

Permission to Appeal Denied April 5, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary L. Wolff and Katherine L. Frazier, Memphis, Tennessee; William S. Lerach, Travis E. Downs, III, James R. Hail, and Mary K. Blasy, San Diego, California; George E. Barrett, Douglas S. Johnston, Timothy L. Miles, and James G. Stranch, III, Nashville, Tennessee, for the appellants, Ethel Hicks, et al.

Leo Bearman, Jr., Memphis, Tennessee, for the appellees, Drew Lewis, Richard K. Davidson, Philip F. Anschutz, E. Virgil Conway, Thomas J. Donohue, Archie W. Dunham, Spencer F. Eccles, Ivor J. Evans, Elbridge T. Gerry, Jr., Judith Richards Hope, Richard J. Mahoney, James Robinson, III, Steven R. Rogel, Richard D. Simmons, and Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon.

Robin Rasmussen, Cordova, Tennessee, for the appellees, Leo H. Suggs, James D. Douglas, Robert Cecil, Mike Eastman, Joe Jasmer, Richard Pair, Jeff Seegert, Donald Tuggle, and Dwayne Williams.

Clifford Pierce, Jr., Memphis, Tennessee, for the nominal appellees, Union Pacific Corporation and Overnite Transportation Company.


Permission to Appeal Denied by Supreme Court April 5, 2004.

OPINION

HOLLY M. KIRBY, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which W. FRANK CRAWFORD, P.J., W.S., and ALAN E. HIGHERS, J., joined.

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