<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Thanks Holly,</div><div><br></div><div>We have an agenda item in our upcoming call related to certification of requests. Suggest you bring it up at this point. <br><br><div>Mathieu Weill</div><div>---------------</div><div>Depuis mon mobile, désolé pour le style</div></div><div><br>Le 6 oct. 2015 à 06:36, Gregory, Holly <<a href="mailto:holly.gregory@sidley.com">holly.gregory@sidley.com</a>> a écrit :<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">To:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:mathieu.weill@afnic.fr">mathieu.weill@afnic.fr</a>; <a href="mailto:thomas@rickert.net">thomas@rickert.net</a>; <a href="mailto:leonfelipe@sanchez.mx">leonfelipe@sanchez.mx</a>; <a href="mailto:ccwg-accountability5@icann.org">ccwg-accountability5@icann.org</a><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Rosemary E. Fei (<a href="mailto:rfei@adlercolvin.com">rfei@adlercolvin.com</a>); Sidley ICANN CCWG; <a href="mailto:ICANN@adlercolvin.com">ICANN@adlercolvin.com</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: certification of legal issues requested<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Dear Co-Chairs, <br>
Consider whether to certify to us the question of whether under ICANN's current structure
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SOs and ACs have legal rights to select directors in line with designator rights under the California statute. Holly and Rosemary.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Gregory, Holly<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, October 05, 2015 09:38:10 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:mathieu.weill@afnic.fr">mathieu.weill@afnic.fr</a>; <a href="mailto:thomas@rickert.net">
thomas@rickert.net</a>; <a href="mailto:leonfelipe@sanchez.mx">leonfelipe@sanchez.mx</a>;
<a href="mailto:ccwg-accountability5@icann.org">ccwg-accountability5@icann.org</a><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Rosemary E. Fei (<a href="mailto:rfei@adlercolvin.com">rfei@adlercolvin.com</a>); Sidley ICANN CCWG;
<a href="mailto:ICANN@adlercolvin.com">ICANN@adlercolvin.com</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> certification of legal issues requested</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Based on much discussion and a fair degree of confusion evident in the email exchange, we request that you consider certifying the following question
to us</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">What <span style="color:black">
are</span> a director’s fiduciary duties<span style="color:black"> to a </span>California nonprofit
<span style="color:black">public benefit </span>corporat<span style="color:black">ion</span>? What is the relationship between these duties and the mission of the corporation?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">In addition, we note that Sam Eisner recently provided a note on the email regarding the availability of default judgments should the Board refuse
to participate in an IRP. We have a different view and would like you to certify that question to us.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">We note as a general matter that we are not able to provide answers to legal questions unless certified but ICANN Legal of course has no such limits.
It does put us in a difficult position when we don’t agree, since some may take our silence as an indication of agreement.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Kind regards,
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Holly and Rosemary </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">HOLLY</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> <b>J. GREGORY</b></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Partner and Co-Chair<br>
Corporate Governance & Executive Compensation Practice Group</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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