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Litigation

May 11, 2011

Oracle Founder Sues Over Trees

Oracle founder Lawrence J. Ellison is involved in a lawsuit in San Francisco that accuses a couple of letting their trees get so big they block views from his Pacific Heights home.


By Amy Yarbrough


Daily Journal Staff Writer


SAN FRANCISCO - At the same time his company was involved in a high-profile copyright infringement battle last year, Oracle Corp. founder Lawrence J. Ellison was quietly feuding with a San Francisco couple over something more mundane: the height of their trees.


Just before Thanksgiving, a federal jury awarded Oracle $1.3 billion in its suit against German company SAP AG after one of its subsidiaries ...

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