National Amusements Fires Back at CBS, Suing Les Moonves and Most of Its Board Members

Fight over control of the network is getting ugly

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National Amusements Inc. (NAI) has fired the next shot in a battle over control of CBS Corp.

NAI filed suit in Delaware Chancery court today accusing CBS Corp. CEO and chairman Leslie Moonves and most of the CBS board of “extraordinary, unjustified and unlawful actions.”

NAI is suing to invalidate the CBS Corp. board’s May 17 action, which sought to curb the voting control of NAI and its majority owners, Sumner Redstone and his daughter Shari.

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