Bobby Kotick's long litigious history includes scraps with employees, contractors, a flight attendant, and a ska band

pcgamer.com:

A recent article by the Washington Post goes into great detail about how Bobby Kotick's history of litigation stretches all the way back to the beginning of his career.

Before Activision, Call of Duty, and the recent controversies surrounding Activision Blizzard's workplace culture, Kotick's first company, Arktronics, sought to produce a tool to make using the Apple II computer easier for the non tech-savvy. Kotick and his business partners asked their employees to forgo portions of their salaries in exchange for stock options, with those options as well as the company's work as a whole ultimately being rendered worthless by later developments in Apple products. 

Arktronics employees sued Kotick for being cheated out of their wages in 1985. Arktronics and the employees eventually settled, but Kotick and Arktronics delayed payment for years, with some former employees alleging they never received their portion of the settlement.

This anecdote was the first in a series of similar stories featured in the Washington Post report going over Kotick's fraught legal battles with multiple contractors who worked on his home in Beverly Hills, former employees, and even the band No Doubt, who sued over their likeness being used in 2009's Band Hero. Kotick emailed one of the band's lawyers, who had represented him in the past, to say: «Do you understand that this will prevent you from ever doing any business with Activision, Universal Music or ANY Vivendi company anywhere in the world?»

One particularly egregious incident related to a former flight attendant on Kotick's private jet. Her suit against the executive alleged that he fired her for complaining about sexual harassment from another worker on the job, and in the ensuing case,