Yakima Herald-Republic articles from March 2008

Yakima Herald-Republic archives from March 2008

Fiduciary duties for activist shareholders.
March 1, 2008... INTRODUCTION I. FOUNDATIONS OF SHAREHOLDER FIDUCIARY DUTIES A. Corporate Fiduciary Duties B. Fiduciary Duties of Shareholders C. Limits of Shareholder Duties 1. Controlling shareholders 2. Freeze-outs...

Other people's money.(fiduciary duty to shareholders)
March 1, 2008... INTRODUCTION I. FIDUCIARY DUTIES TO SHAREHOLDERS A. Board Discretion B. The Business Judgment Rule II. A DUTY TO MAXIMIZE FIRM VALUE III. A CONTRACTARIAN SOLUTION IV. APPLICATION: DELINKING DISCLOSURE DUTIES A....

Sovereign wealth funds and corporate governance: a minimalist response to the new mercantilism.
March 1, 2008... INTRODUCTION I. THE SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUND PHENOMENON II. Two FACES OF SWF EQUITY INVESTMENTS III. A MINIMALIST SOLUTION: VOTE SUSPENSION IV. THE LIMITS OF VOTE SUSPENSION A. The Problem of Underinclusion B. The Problem...

Corrupting the harm requirement in white collar crime.
March 1, 2008... INTRODUCTION I. DEFINING CORRUPTION IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE A. A Brief Intellectual History of "Corruption" B. The Federal Law of Public Corruption II. MAIL/WIRE FRAUD A. The Road to [section] 1346 B. Fits and...

FCPA prosecutions: liability trend to watch.(Foreign Corrupt Practices Act)
March 1, 2008... INTRODUCTION I. FOREIGN CORRUPT PRACTICES ACT II. THE CURRENT ENVIRONMENT A. Regulatory Environment B. Private Litigation Environment C. The Threat to Directors and Officers III. RECOMMENDATIONS A. Training ...

Defining "national group" in the Genocide Convention: a case study of Timor-Leste.
March 1, 2008... INTRODUCTION I. THE GENOCIDE CONVENTION AND PROTECTED GROUPS A. The Genocide Convention B. Problems with the Current National Group Definition C. Self-Determination and Genocide II. TIMOR-LESTE CASE STUDY A. A...

Crawford's aftershock: aligning the regulation of nontestimonial hearsay with the history and purposes of the confrontation clause.
March 1, 2008... INTRODUCTION I. THE CASE FOR LIMITING THE CONFRONTATION CLAUSE TO TESTIMONIAL STATEMENTS, AND WHY IT IS WRONG A. Taking a Historical and Purposive Look at the Confrontation Clause B. The Tale of the...

Stacked deck: go-shops and auction theory.
March 1, 2008... INTRODUCTION I. AUCTION THEORY A. Comparison Between Auctions and Sequential Mechanisms B. Empirical Studies of the Benefits of Auctions II. GO-SHOP BACKGROUND A. An Analysis of a Typical Go-Shop B. Transactions...