United States Ninth Circuit

A former employee was not entitled to vest stock options or to stock-options damages after being terminated from his position, because a stock option agreement was not controlled by Swiss law. A compensation committee did not breach the duty of good faith and fair dealing.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/05/2002
• Decided 02/11/2003
• Published 02/11/2003

Judges

• TALLMAN, Circuit Judge., Before: BERZON, TALLMAN, and CLIFTON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jeffrey A. Berman, Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, Los Angeles, California, for Amicus Curiae the Employers Group.


• For Appellees:
  
• Richard A. Johnston,Jonathan D. Rosenfeld, Hale & Dorr LLP, Boston, Massachusetts;  E. Jeffrey Banchero, Marc N. Henschke, The Banchero Law Firm, San Francisco, California;  for the defendant-appellant., Ronald S. Cooper, Morgan D. Hodgson, Steptoe & Johnson LLP, Washington, D.C., for the plaintiff-appellee.