Liberty Media Seeks Order Barring IAC Spinoff Plans

February 1, 2008 8:28 pm

 Liberty Media Corp.’s billionaire Chairman John Malone, who is battling to wrest control of IAC/InterActiveCorp from Barry Diller, asked a judge to temporarily halt IAC’s plans to break up into five companies.The request comes amid a legal battle that began last week when IAC and Liberty traded lawsuits over Diller’s plan to dismantle the media and Internet conglomerate he spent more than a decade assembling and cut Liberty’s voting power in half. Liberty wants to bar spinoff proceedings until the suits are resolved.

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