In re COX COMMUNICATIONS, INC. SHAREHOLDERS LITIGATION.
Court of Chancery of Delaware, New Castle County.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Submitted: May 9, 2005.
Decided: June 6, 2005.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Joseph A. Rosenthal, Esquire, Rosenthal Monhait Gross & Goddess, P.A., Wilmington, Delaware; Plaintiffs' Liaison Counsel.
Arthur N. Abbey, Esquire, Stephen T. Rodd, Esquire, Karin E. Fisch, Esquire, and James S. Notis, Esquire, Abbey Gardy, LLP, New York, New York; U. Seth Ottensoser, Esquire, Bernstein Liebhard & Lifshitz, LLP, New York, New York; Seth D. Rigrodsky, Esquire, and Joseph N. Gielata, Esquire, Milberg Weiss Bershad & Shulman, LLP, Wilmington, Delaware; Michael Hanrahan, Esquire and Gary F. Traynor, Prickett, Jones & Elliott, P.A., Wilmington, Delaware; Marc A. Topaz, Esquire, Schiffrin & Barroway, LLP, Radnor, Pennsylvania, Plaintiffs' Executive Committee.
Kevin G. Abrams, Esquire, and Philippe Y. Blanchard, Esquire, Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, Delaware; Michael D. Hays, Esquire, Dow, Lohnes & Albertson, PLLC, Washington, D.C., Attorneys for Cox Enterprises, Inc., Cox Holdings, Inc., Barbara Cox Anthony, Anne Cox Chambers, James C. Kennedy, G. Dennis Berry and Robert C. O'Leary.
William M. Lafferty, Esquire, Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell, Wilmington, Delaware; Attorneys for Cox Communications, Inc., James O. Robbins, Janet M. Clarke, Rodney W. Schrock and Andrew J. Young; Alex Sussman, Esquire, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, New York, NY, Attorneys for Janet M. Clarke, Rodney W. Schrock and Andrew J. Young.
Stephen E. Jenkins, Esquire, Ashby & Geddes, Wilmington, Delaware; Elliott J. Weiss, Charles E. Ares Professor, James E. Rogers College of Law, Tucson, Arizona, Attorneys for Objectors Jeffrey Zoub and Franklin Mutual Advisor, LLC.
Court of Chancery of Delaware, New Castle County.
OPINION
STRINE, Vice Chancellor.
I. Introduction
This decision addresses an objection to a request for attorneys' fees. The plaintiffs seeking the fee award filed premature, hastily-drafted, makeweight complaints attacking a fully negotiable proposal by the Cox family1 to enter into a merger whereby they would buy all the public's shares in Cox Communications, Inc. The...
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