VeriFone Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation with its principal place of business in San Jose, California, designs,

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VeriFone Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation with its principal place of business in San Jose, California, designs, markets, and services electronic payment transaction systems. In 2006, VeriFone acquired Lipman Electronic Engineering Ltd. In 2007, VeriFone publicly announced that it would restate its reported earnings for the prior three fiscal quarters. Earnings had been materially overstated due to accounting and valuation errors made while Lipman's inventory systems were being integrated with VeriFone's. After that restatement announcement, VeriFone's stock price dropped over 45 percent. The next day, Charles King, a VeriFone shareholder filed a derivative action on behalf of VeriFone against certain of its officers and board of directors, asserting various federal securities fraud claims. A few months later, King demanded that VeriFone permit him to inspect the company's books and records, including VeriFone's Audit Committee Report, which contained the results of an internal investigation of VeriFone's accounting and financial controls conducted after the 2007 restatement announcement. VeriFone refused to grant to King access to the Audit Report on the grounds he lacked a proper purpose under Delaware law, because he had previously elected to bring a derivative action. Was VeriFone correct?

Audit Report
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Corporation
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Business Law The Ethical Global and E-Commerce Environment

ISBN: 978-0071317658

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Authors: Jane Mallor, James Barnes, Thomas Bowers, Arlen Langvardt

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