The Redstones are 0-for-2. Andre Bouchard, a judge at Delaware Chancery Court, has rejected a motion to dismiss Viacom’s lead independent director Frederic Salerno’s lawsuit that challenges the attempted removal of Philippe Dauman and four fellow board members from the media company’s board. The ruling allowing the case to move to the discovery stage follows what happened in Massachusetts …
Lawyers for media mogul Sumner Redstone on Monday filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit in Massachusetts court alleging Redstone wasn’t mentally competent when he removed two trustees of entities that control Viacom Inc. and CBS Corp. Redstone’s attorneys are asking the probate court in Canton to toss out the lawsuit, saying Redstone has not been deemed incompetent by a court or by …
The mental capacity of Sumner Redstone is at the center of yet another lawsuit, this one filed by Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman against Shari Redstone, the billionaire businessman’s daughter. Dauman and longtime Viacom director George Abrams filed a legal complaint in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Probate and Family Court accusing Shari of taking advantage of her 92-year-old father’s mental …