The ruling Thursday undoes a 2008 trial court decision ordering Warner Bros. to share an undetermined amount of money earned since 1999 with the heirs, and to give the family control of key components of the Superman story, including his costume.
But Koch has developed a style of management and a method of transmitting it to his employees that may well mean he keeps the positive attributes of family control long after the family has lost control.
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His son Tim, formerly the winemaker at Robert Mondavi Winery, had the curtain crash down on his own first act when the family lost control of the winery after it went public and was purchased by Constellation Brands, the creators of Wild Irish Rose, in 2004.
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The sale of Directv to John Malone gives the family effective control at 38% of News Corp. and clears the way for James, now running the European satellite venture, BSkyB, to step in one day.
That keeps the family in control, but gives it what could be an important ally, if everything works out.
The purpose of these pyramids was to draw outside capital into the family group while retaining control over the use of this capital within the family.
Police have yet to declare the death a suicide or murder, but newspapers immediately speculated that it may have been linked to the fight for control of the family fortune, which has left three members killed and one missing over the last three decades.
Ford's 11 outside directors aren't showing any signs of challenging the family's control, either.
They have demanded assurances that the Journal, which has been under the family's control since 1902, would be free of corporate meddling.
Its boss, Domenico De Sole, who was brought in after the Gucci family lost control, is thought to have done a good job in a tough market.
The Italian family finally gained total control over the Houbigant name in 2005 and is now working hard to restore Houbigant to its former glory.
The Ford family retained the 40% voting control in the automaker because of a separate class of shares established when it went public in 1956.
That plan could have given the Marriott family 45% voting control, compared with the 21% it owns--and given the kids of Chief Executive J.
That plan could have given the Marriott family 45% voting control, compared with the 21% it owns--and given the kids of the CEO, J.
One possibility: Kerkorian hopes to gain enough influence at Ford to eventually get rid of the Class B shares, which gives the Ford family 40% voting control despite owning just 4% of the company's stock.
Any buyer would need to have the cooperation of the Ford family in order to secure the complete control necessary for a private equity turnaround, notes KeyBanc Capital Markets analyst Brett Hoselton.
In health, for example, the Tories gave family doctors control of their own budgets.
David Koch has acknowledged that the family exerts tight ideological control.
Edelman had been unable to get the Taittinger family to relinquish control of his target years ago, but then embarked on years of failed litigation on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
These changes will constrain the control of family wealth, may inadvertently promote unwanted behaviors, and may cause clients future fees and costs to keep up the various trusts, limited liability companies, family limited partnerships, and other devices on an annual basis.
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The Koos own a 39% stake in LG, allowing family members to control the company, although professional managers now run it.
His estate, as well as the estate of Doris Duke, were both marred by fighting over control of the large family fortune.
Though small stakes in the cement and paper businesses are publicly traded, his family retains firm control over the group.
In April Morgan Stanley and other disaffected investors, representing 28% of the shares in the New York Times Company, ostentatiously withheld their votes at the annual meeting, in protest at the falling share price of the paper under the control of the Ochs-Sulzberger family.
She wants to do the work from her home office, near her family, and keep control of the process.
The family patriarch started handing daily control of his collection of companies to his offspring in the late 1990s.
It also helps the family dynamic of battling for control of one television.
The family, which still has control, puts the interests of the firm first.
Denied by his late father, Alvaro Noboa finally won control of the family's banana business in Ecuador, but at a high cost.
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