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Paul, Weiss Obtains Victory for Deloitte & Touche
Practices
Paul, Weiss achieved a victory for our clients Deloitte & Touche LLP (D&T) and one of D&T's partners on May 31 in Nevada state court when Judge Elizabeth Gonzalez granted our motion for summary judgment in a defamation and tortious interference action.
Plaintiffs were founders and former directors of D&T's client, Global Cash Access Holdings, Inc. (GCA). After coming into the possession of an FBI intelligence bulletin containing allegations that GCA and plaintiffs had committed serious illegal acts, D&T disclosed those allegations to the GCA audit committee and requested that the audit committee conduct an investigation. Plaintiffs claimed that D&T's statements to the GCA audit committee were defamatory.
We argued that D&T was required by law to make these statements to the audit committee, under the federal securities laws and generally accepted auditing standards, and that D&T did not act with malice. Judge Gonzales granted our motion, holding that the disclosure was protected by a conditional privilege because D&T had a duty to make the statements at issue and had not acted with malice.
The Paul, Weiss team included litigation partners Charles E. Davidow and Andrew J. Ehrlich.