legal professionals for Sumner Redstone and his daughter
asked a court to reject Viacom Inc (VIAB.O) leader govt Philippe Dauman's
request to transport up the trial over Dauman's removal from the media
magnate's trust, consistent with court docket filings on Friday.
Sumner Redstone's attorneys stated the claims by means of
Dauman and Viacom board member George Abrams had been encouraged by using
"self hobby." attorneys for daughter Shari Redstone stated they would
document by using June 16 a motion to push aside Dauman's case.
closing month, Redstone eliminated Dauman and Abrams from
the believe that could determine the future of CBS Corp (CBS.N) and Viacom
after controlling shareholder Redstone, 93, dies or is said mentally
incapacitated.
Dauman fired again with a lawsuit wondering Redstone's
intellectual competence. He argued that replacing him and Abrams on the believe
and the national Amusements Inc board could cause an illegal corporate takeover
via Shari Redstone.
Les Fagen, an lawyer for Dauman and Abrams, said on Friday
in a declaration: "there are numerous undisclosed facts to be able to emerge
regarding the conduct of Shari and her
representatives."
Dauman has asked a Massachusetts
courtroom to hold a tribulation by way of the stop of September. A listening to
on that request is scheduled for Tuesday.
In a legal movement on Friday, Sumner Redstone's attorneys
argued that Dauman and Abrams were enacting "an acutely self-fascinated
prison method that they started plotting months earlier to secure their tenuous
positions with Viacom."
they also said a majority of the alternative trustees had ratified
Abrams' and Dauman's elimination. "Plaintiffs are therefore off the trust,
and stale the board, although they may someway prove the allegations in their
complaint," the motion stated.
Shari Redstone has stated her father made his personal
decisions. Her legal professionals, in a separate submitting to the Massachusetts
courtroom on Friday, said Dauman and Abrams apparently had no concerns as to
Sumner's competence until he took them off the agree with.
lawyers for the Redstones also asked the court docket to
allow the case be handled in California,
wherein Sumner Redstone is searching for an order validating Dauman and Abrams'
removal. That request was assigned to choose David Cowan, who in may
additionally dismissed a lawsuit via an ex-lady friend who claimed Sumner
Redstone turned into mentally incompetent.
The outcome of the instances, and who finally ends up
controlling the agree with and the countrywide Amusements board, will have
huge-ranging implications for Viacom and CBS and will result in adjustments on
the top of both businesses, in all likelihood thru mergers and acquisitions.
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