by adoyle@visiblelogic.com | Mar 12, 2025 | Court Rulings, Valuations
Boston Ret. Sys. v. Uber Techs., Inc., 2024. The lead plaintiff, Boston Retirement System filed a motion to compel production of unredacted versions of 28 documents nonparty PricewaterhouseCoopers produced. Uber Technologies Inc. asserted that the work product doctrine shielded the redacted portions. The documents were in four categories: impairment assessments, forensic memoranda, emails, and management representation letters. The court ordered Boston Retirement System to provide one example of each category one, two, and four for in camera review. Uber was ordered to provide unredacted copies of all emails at issue.
by adoyle@visiblelogic.com | Feb 26, 2025 | Court Rulings, Valuations
Palkon v. Maffei, 2024 This was a suit where the minority shareholders challenged the conversion of two Delaware corporations into Nevada corporations with the controlling shareholder delivering the deciding vote the admitted purpose of which was reducing potential...
by adoyle@visiblelogic.com | Feb 12, 2025 | Court Rulings, Valuations
The Alaska Supreme Court made three rulings in this, but we focus the digest on the second ruling, that the trial court did not err in valuing the business’s active appreciation. The trial court’s explanation was reasonable and considered aspects of the reports. Each spouse appealed certain aspects of the trial court’s order dividing their property. The wife appealed that the trial court erred in valuing the active appreciation of the business, and the husband challenged the trial court’s valuation of the active appreciation of real property rented to the business. The supreme court affirmed the trial court property division in all aspects.
by adoyle@visiblelogic.com | Jan 29, 2025 | Court Rulings, Valuations
Miller v. Miller, 2024-Ohio-821 The husband, Craig Miller, appealed from an amended judgment decree of divorce. The appellate court reversed the trial court. Facts and procedural history. The parties married on June 15, 2004. The husband became an optometrist in 2004...
by adoyle@visiblelogic.com | Jan 15, 2025 | Court Rulings, Valuations
Smith v. Smith, 2024 This case involved an appeal of a Chancery Court decision in a divorce case in Mississippi. The wife was the appellant in this case. Two major issues were on appeal. The first dealt with child custody, which we will not cover in this digest, and...
