Excerpt: So much interest and concern over stock option backdating and repricing, evinced by so many individuals and organizations, bodes poorly for the legitimacy of the potential motives for such actions. Such actions cannot withstand examination under any ethical test and should raise concern among investors, creditors, executives, and boards of directors. Based on the outcome of the Brocade case, such concerns have permeated the minds of potential jurors and thus the wider public.

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