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December 29, 2010, 2:10 AM EST
By Phil Milford
(Updates with excerpt from motion in third paragraph.)
Dec. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Hewlett-Packard Co.’s former Chief Executive Officer, Mark Hurd, asked a Delaware judge today to allow him to intervene in a shareholder’s lawsuit so he can fight to keep a sealed letter about his departure confidential.
Hurd, currently under investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over his leaving in August, told Delaware Chancery Court Judge Donald Parsons Jr. his name should be added to the lawsuit seeking company books and records because the letter from lawyer Gloria Allred is personal and his alone.
The letter “was sent by Ms. Allred for the purpose of attempting to arrange a private mediation and/or achieve private resolution of a potential dispute between Mr. Hurd and Ms. Jodie Fisher,” who has said the letter contains “many inaccuracies,” Hurd’s lawyers said in today’s motion.
Hurd, 53, resigned as HP’s chairman and CEO on Aug. 6, after a company investigation of a sexual harassment-allegation determined that he violated its standards of business conduct, according to a statement from Hewlett-Packard. The former contractor who made the harassment claim was later identified by Allred as Jodie Fisher. HP said it didn’t find that Hurd had violated its harassment policy.
Hurd now works for software maker Oracle Corp. as a co- president.
The case is Ernesto Espinoza v. Hewlett-Packard Co., CA6000, Delaware Chancery Court (Wilmington).
--With assistance from Dawn McCarty in Wilmington, Delaware. Editors: Mary Romano, Charles Carter
To contact the reporter on this story: Phil Milford in Wilmington, Delaware, at pmilford@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: David E. Rovella at drovella@bloomberg.net.
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(Updates with excerpt from motion in third paragraph.)
Dec. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Hewlett-Packard Co.’s former Chief Executive Officer, Mark Hurd, asked a Delaware judge today to allow him to intervene in a shareholder’s lawsuit so he can fight to keep a sealed letter about his departure confidential.
Hurd, currently under investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over his leaving in August, told Delaware Chancery Court Judge Donald Parsons Jr. his name should be added to the lawsuit seeking company books and records because the letter from lawyer Gloria Allred is personal and his alone.
The letter “was sent by Ms. Allred for the purpose of attempting to arrange a private mediation and/or achieve private resolution of a potential dispute between Mr. Hurd and Ms. Jodie Fisher,” who has said the letter contains “many inaccuracies,” Hurd’s lawyers said in today’s motion.
Hurd, 53, resigned as HP’s chairman and CEO on Aug. 6, after a company investigation of a sexual harassment-allegation determined that he violated its standards of business conduct, according to a statement from Hewlett-Packard. The former contractor who made the harassment claim was later identified by Allred as Jodie Fisher. HP said it didn’t find that Hurd had violated its harassment policy.
Hurd now works for software maker Oracle Corp. as a co- president.
The case is Ernesto Espinoza v. Hewlett-Packard Co., CA6000, Delaware Chancery Court (Wilmington).
--With assistance from Dawn McCarty in Wilmington, Delaware. Editors: Mary Romano, Charles Carter
To contact the reporter on this story: Phil Milford in Wilmington, Delaware, at pmilford@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: David E. Rovella at drovella@bloomberg.net.
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