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IN RE WALT DISNEY CO. DERIVATIVE LITIGATION

No. Civ.A. 15452.

907 A.2d 693 (2005)

In re THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY DERIVATIVE LITIGATION

Court of Chancery of Delaware.

Decided August 9, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph A. Rosenthal, Norman M. Monhait and Carmella P. Keener of Rosenthal, Monhait, Gross & Goddess, P.A., Wilmington, Delaware; Seth D. Rigrodsky, of Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman LLP, Wilmington, Delaware; Steven G. Schulman, Joshua H. Vinik, Jennifer K. Hirsh and John B. Rediker, of Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman LLP, New York, New York, for Plaintiffs, of counsel.

David C. McBride and Christian Douglas Wright, of Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, Delaware; Mark H. Epstein and Jason L. Haas, of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, Los Angeles, California, for Defendant Michael S. Ovitz, of counsel.

Andre G. Bouchard and Joel Friedlander, of Bouchard, Margules & Friedlander, P.A., Wilmington, Delaware, for Nominal Defendant The Walt Disney Company.

Robert K. Payson, Stephen C. Norman and Kevin R. Shannon, of Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, Delaware, for Defendant Sanford M. Litvack.

Jesse A. Finkelstein, Gregory P. Williams, Anne C. Foster, Lisa A. Schmidt, Evan O. Williford and Michael R. Robinson, of Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, Delaware, for Defendants Stephen F. Bollenbach, Reveta F. Bowers, Ignacio E. Lozano, Jr., George J. Mitchell, Thomas S. Murphy, Richard A. Nunis, Leo J. O'Donovan, S.J., Sidney Poitier, Irwin E. Russell, Robert A.M. Stern, E. Cardon Walker, Raymond L. Watson and Gary L. Wilson.

A. Gilchrist Sparks, III and S. Mark Hurd, of Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell, Wilmington, Delaware; Stephen D. Alexander and Fred L. Wilks, formerly of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, Los Angeles, California, for Defendants Roy Disney and Stanley P. Gold, of counsel.

Lawrence C. Ashby and Richard D. Heins, of Ashby & Geddes, Wilmington, Delaware; Gary P. Naftalis, Michael S. Oberman, Paul F. Schoeman and Shoshana Menu, of Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, New York, New York, for Defendant Michael Eisner, of counsel.

OPINION

CHANDLER, J.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction ..................................................................... 697

  I. FACTS ....................................................................... 699
     A. Michael Ovitz Joins The Walt Disney Company .............................. 699
        1. Background ............................................................ 699
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