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07:52 AAPL Apple: Judge grants shareholder access to Apple meeting minutes - San Jose Mercury News (153.18 ) -Update-

San Jose Mercury News reports California Superior Court Judge Jack Komar said at a hearing in San Jose Monday that he would order Apple to turn over to the Boston Retirement Board minutes from the meetings of Apple's board of directors and board committees from 1997 to the present.

Komar also said he would order Apple to give the retirement board records relating to how it accounted for the stock options it handed out during that period. Any documents that Apple hands over to the retirement board will be under a protective order, meaning they can't be disclosed to anyone else.

What's more, Apple may be able to avoid handing over certain meeting minutes or accounting records if it can prove to the judge that they are covered by attorney-client or some other privilege.