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- Andersen & Co. Worked on Pooh Case During Shredding at Disney - "Arthur Andersen & Co., the accounting firm that oversaw the shredding of Enron Corporation records, was hired as the outside accounting expert in the long-running Winnie the Pooh royalties case and worked on it at the Walt Disney Co. from 1994 to at least 1998, a period when thousands of pages of documents related to the case were destroyed in violation of a court order." By Joe Shea. [American Reporter]
www.monitor.net/monitor/0202a/pooh3.html
- California Supreme Court Rejects Disney Appeal - "The California Supreme Court has decided not to review an appeal by the Walt Disney Co. from a lower court's decision to slap the media giant with stiff penalties for willfully destroying documents it had been ordered to preserve." By Joe Shea. [American Reporter]
www.monitor.net/monitor/0203a/pooh5.html
- Court Rulings Go Against Disney in Pooh Dispute - "Superior Court Judge Ernest M. Hiroshige in August sanctioned Disney $90,000 for destroying 40 boxes of documents, including one labeled 'Winnie the Pooh--legal problems,' according to court records that will be unsealed today." [LA Times]
www.latimes.com/business/la-000004565jan18.story
- Disney Fined $90K for Shredding Evidence - Excerpt from New York Post article and reader comments. [IMC]
www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=122576
- Disney Restates 2001, 2002 Earnings - "Company cites 'non-material human math error' as the reason behind restatement." [CNN Money]
money.cnn.com/2002/06/28/news/disney/index.htm
- Disney's World: A Look at the Darker Side - Site reviews problems with Disney hiring practices and sweatshop labor.
www2.gol.com/users/bobkeim/Disney/Dintro.html
- Disneyland Fiasco - Discusses inept security management at Disneyland.
www.angelfire.com/punk/Disneyland
- Don't Trust the Rat Wearing the Hat - "The truth about the world's most domineering corporation & its plans for world domination."
www.angelfire.com/wa/rathat
- NY Post Writer Is Up Pooh Creek After Taking On Disney - "Finke reported on a breach-of-contract lawsuit filed against Disney by Stephen Slesinger Inc. ... Her lawyers say Finke was told that she was being fired because of pressure from Disney." News and reader discussion. [Plastic]
www.plastic.com/article.pl?sid=02/03/20/0150253
- Oh, Pooh! -- Does Disney Owe Hundreds of Millions for the Bear of Very Little Brain? - "The Walt Disney Corporation has been fined $90,000 for destroying 40 boxes of legal documents possibly pertaining to a lawsuit over the royalties from Disney's sale of Winnie the Pooh merchandise." News and forum discussion. [Plastic]
www.plastic.com/article.pl?sid=02/01/20/2138254
- Pooh Audit May Be Tainted By Conflict Of Interest - "A lengthy and expensive accounting in the battle over royalties on Winnie The Pooh revenues may be tainted, according to sources familiar with the case and court records." By Joe Shea. [American Reporter]
www.monitor.net/monitor/0203a/pooh4.html
- Pooh Files, Part 2: "Get Eisner Down Here" - "The Walt Disney Co. destroyed 'hundreds of boxes and thousands of pages' of records from its Hong Kong manufacturing arm that showed how Winnie The Pooh-related products were made, shipped and licensed, newly-released documents in an 11-year-old lawsuit for hundreds of millions in past due royalties reveal." By Joe Shea. [American Reporter]
www.monitor.net/monitor/0201a/pooh2.html
- Society of Disney Haters - Club devoted to exposing Disney's corporate wrongdoings and decrying the Disnification of culture. The active bulletin board has some lively debates.
www.sodh.org
- Squeaky-clean Disney hides a dirty secret, writer says - Mickey Mouse and his Disney cohorts are devouring the world, a popular Florida author said in a new book. [Nando Times]
www.nando.com/newsroom/ntn/enter/051298/enter6_17968_body.html
- The Pooh Files - "The court battle between the Walt Disney Co. and a Beverly Hills family may be now approaching trial after 11 years, with almost all of the proceedings conducted in total secrecy." By Joe Shea. [American Reporter]
www.monitor.net/monitor/0201a/pooh1.html
- The Unauthorized Anti-Disney Page - Contends that the Disney Corporation portrays itself as a warm, family oriented company but in reality is an irresponsible corporate citizen concerned only with profit.
www.geocities.com/~jmgould/disney.html
- Who's Afraid of Mickey Mouse? - "Last month, the New York Post fired entertainment reporter Nikki Finke, shortly after the Walt Disney Company complained about two stories that appeared in the Post under Finke's byline on January 29." By Cynthia Cotts. [Village Voice]
www.villagevoice.com/issues/0212/cotts.php
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