Just a few days after Apple CEO Tim Cook referred to a shareholder lawsuit spearheaded by Greenlight Capital fund manager David Einhorn as a "silly sideshow," the company filed its formal response to the lawsuit.
As one would expect, the response is rather harsh. As noted in MacNN's analysis of the response, Apple found that Einhorn's plan was "self-serving," with even Einhorn himself referring to the proposal as a "roadblock."
In previous coverage of this lawsuit, we noted that it was brought on by a desire by shareholders to have Apple distribute more of its sizable cash hoard through dividends. Einhorn had made
