In recently unsealed documents, a federal insider trading and shareholder fraud suit alleges that hundreds of e-mails and financial records, and even audio interviews with Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison, vanished or were improperly withheld from plaintiffs.
Lawyers for Oracle have strenuously denied the accusations, contained in thousands of pages of documents unsealed at the request of The National Law Journal.
Now, a showdown over the plaintiffs’ request for default judgment as a sanction for alleged document destruction, as well as motions on both sides for summary judgment, looms in a Nov. 16 hearing in U.S. District Court in San Francisco.
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