 |
||||||||||
| Home
|
The Disneyland Report > Disney News > Ovitz case to play out on Net Disney NewsOvitz case to play out on NetThe New York Times The shareholder lawsuit over the $140 million severance package that the Walt Disney Company paid to Michael S. Ovitz, its former president, is sure to be one of the most watched trials in recent Hollywood history. For those who cannot afford to spend a month in Georgetown, Del., where the trial is set to begin Oct. 18, Chancellor William B. Chandler III of Delaware Chancery Court has agreed that the proceedings can be shown live on the Internet at www.courtroomconnect.com. But access for business users comes at a price: $600 a week for the audio and video as well as online access to documents and slides presented in court. Louis Goldberg, president of Courtroom Connect, said that reporters, lawyers and other interested parties would be able to watch live streaming audio and video of the testimony. The witness list includes Michael D. Eisner, the Disney chief executive; George Mitchell, the chairman; the dissident former directors Stanley Gold and Roy Disney, the nephew of the founder; and the former director and actor Sidney Poitier, who starred in "To Sir, With Love." Ovitz is expected to be among the first witnesses, and the trial is sure to dredge up old information that is embarrassing to Eisner. Some communications between Eisner and the board as well as documents related to Ovitz's free-spending ways have already made their way around Hollywood. To read the rest of this article, click here. Return to Disney News. |
|||||||||
|
|
||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||
|
The
Disneyland Report - Disney News and Secrets is not affiliated
with Disneyland |
 |
|||||||||
 |
||||||||||
