The board of directors and several executives of Pinterest have been hit with a shareholder derivative lawsuit brought by an institutional investor alleging that the defendants breached their fiduciary duties by causing or permitting the company to engage in a pattern of race and gender discrimination and retaliation, harming the company’s reputation and workforce. As discussed below, the Pinterest lawsuit is the latest in a series of lawsuits alleging that companies’ boards have violated their duties to their companies or the companies’ shareholders with respect to their oversight of diversity, equity and inclusion issues.
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