Google Sued by Pension Fund Over Proposed Stock Split

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Google Inc., the world’s largest Web-search provider, was sued by a Massachusetts city’s pension fund claiming the company’s planned stock split would unfairly create nonvoting shares.

The Brockton Retirement Board contends that officials of Mountain View, California-based Google failed to act in the best interests of shareholders in creating a new class of stock.