August 09, 2005
Agency law
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There was an interesting little discussion of agency law in the Disney opinion. The question is whether the board should have gotten more involved in Ovitz’s termination. The court said it didn’t have to act at all – the CEO had the agency power to terminate Ovitz on his own, even without the board.  See p. 165, n. 570. 

This brings to mind the casebook chestnut, in my book and others, Lee v. Jenkins Bros, 268 F.2d 357 (2d Cir. 1959), which involved hiring of an executive rather than firing.

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