Article: Artes Medical Broadens Lawsuit to Include Improper Proxy Solicitation Activities of Shack and Others Seeking $30 Million in Damages Due to Business Interference and Other Misconduct.

SAN DIEGO -- Artes Medical Inc. (Nasdaq:ARTE), a medical aesthetics company, today announced that the Company has amended its current lawsuit against two former officers and company founders, Stephan and Gottfried Lemperle, to include claims of improper proxy solicitation activities and related misconduct by proxy organizer Michael Shack and others, including former employees of the Company. The Company alleges in the lawsuit that Shack and other individuals are working in concert with the defendants in an effort to interfere with the business of the Company and is seeking $30 million in economic, compensatory and punitive damages for losses arising out of tortious ...

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