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Judge to rule on legitimacy of Biovail meeting

RICHARD BLACKWELL

From Wednesday's Globe and Mail

TORONTO — An Ontario judge will decide within the next few days whether Biovail Corp.'s June 25 annual meeting – where founder Eugene Melnyk's dissident slate of directors was rejected – will stand, or whether the company must order a new vote. Mr. Justice Herman Wilton-Siegel of the Ontario Superior Court reserved his decision Tuesday after a day-long hearing of arguments from both sides.

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