DirecTV, Liberty Media sued over merger plans

Courtesy Newsvine - business  Thu, 05/14/2009 - 15:19

Two public pension funds are suing DirecTV Group Inc. and Liberty Media Corp. over plans to merge DirecTV into Liberty's entertainment unit, then spinning them off into a new publicly traded company.


 

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