The court held by six votes to one that there would be no violation of Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment) of the European Convention on Human Rights if the two failed asylum seekers - referred to as Mr H and Mr B - were removed to Afghanistan.
Over his five-year tenure at H-P, Mr. Hurd grew the company into the world's largest information-technology provider by revenue.
Mr. Schultz, H-P's general counsel, said H-P was shown "significant documentation from former Autonomy executives refuting the allegations" of any accounting issues.
"If I didn't have a smartphone and a tablet I would have replaced it by now, " said Mr. Munson of his H-P laptop.
Mr. Hurd resigned from H-P earlier this month after the board unanimously asked for his exit over business-conduct violations related to his relationship with Ms. Fisher, 50, who had earlier accused the CEO of sexual harassment claims.
Mr. Hurd "has put H-P's most valuable trade secrets and confidential information in peril, " the suit alleges.
H-P hired a law firm to do its own investigation and has exonerated Mr. Hurd of sexual harassment, saying he didn't violate H-P's guidelines, even while refusing to disclose Ms. Fisher's allegations or H-P's findings.
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Mr. Hurd holds deep knowledge of H-P's operations that could prove useful at Oracle.
Mr. Hurd was pushed out of H-P last month in the wake of a scandal related to a former contractor, Jodie Fisher.
Some compensation consultants have said the amount doesn't seem unduly generous, given payouts to departing executives at other companies and Mr. Hurd's contributions to H-P.
H-P found that Mr. Hurd didn't violate the company's sexual harassment policy but determined that he violated its code of business conduct, including inaccurate expense reports that appeared to conceal a personal relationship with Ms. Fisher.
H-P on Tuesday sued Mr. Hurd for breach of contract for moving to Oracle.
In conversations with H-P board members, Mr. Hurd argued that the harassment allegations didn't need to be disclosed since the board had cleared him of such claims, while the board eventually decided to disclose the harassment claims and their investigation, Mr. Hurd told acquaintances.
H-P says an investigation found Mr. Hurd had a "close personal relationship" with Ms. Fisher that was never disclosed to the board.
So far this time, it appears the SEC isn't looking into H-P's disclosures around Mr. Hurd's resignation, people familiar with the matter said.
Mr Ratner then left the company and the group - which included H Samuel and Ernest Jones - was eventually rebranded as Signet.
While it isn't unusual for companies to sue departing executives to enforce exit agreements, H-P's suit Tuesday against Mr. Hurd is atypical in that former CEOs are rarely subject to such legal actions, experts said.
H-P's investigation determined that Mr. Hurd used corporate funds to pay for meals and hotels for Ms. Fisher, which could also raise questions for the SEC, since improper personal use of corporate money can lead to a case against an executive.
But others on Monday questioned why Mr. Hurd is getting paid at all, given the H-P board's conclusions about his violation of company policies.
Government regulators may also home in on whether the H-P board properly disclosed the allegations against Mr. Hurd and the reasons for his dismissal, according to the management lawyers.
Mr. McCartney said no competitors have attempted to woo Purdue away from H-P yet.
H-P's board conducted an internal probe that concluded Mr. Hurd didn't violate the company's sexual-harassment policy.
H-P's board has faced a shareholder backlash over Mr. Hurd's exit.
The board and he decided days earlier that he would leave H-P and were discussing details of his exit package, Mr. Hurd said to these people.
People familiar with H-P's board have said the board was unhappy Mr. Hurd reached a private settlement with Ms. Fisher, precluding the board from completing an investigation about the sexual harassment allegations.
The H-P board isn't aware of any further allegations against Mr. Hurd, said people familiar with the matter.
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