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EMMENEGGER v. BULL MOOSE TUBE CO.

Corporation & Enterprise Law, ERISA, Labor & Employment Law
Evidence was sufficient to show that defendants did not act reasonably or in good faith in terminating plaintiffs for cause under an ERISA plan, and...

BOGOSIAN v. WOLOOHOJIAN REALTY CORP.

Civil Procedure, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Labor & Employment Law, Remedies
In an action alleging a corporation's "freeze-out" of an officer and shareholder, the complaint and a counterclaim were not "interwoven" as to the...

OLSON v. COHEN

Attorney's Fees, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Legal Malpractice
Where a law corporation fails to register with the State Bar as required by the Business and Professions Code section 17206.1, disgorgement of legal...

RAYTHEON CONSTR. INC. v. ASARCO INC.

Corporation & Enterprise Law, Environmental Law, Property Law & Real Estate
A successor-in-interest was not an "operator" or "arranger" under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA),...

CARRAMERICA REALTY CORP. v. KAIDANOW

Corporation & Enterprise Law, Securities Law
In an action surrounding the fairness of stock issuing price, 1) the district court erred in finding shares void rather than voidable, 2) minority...

SEINFELD v. BARTZ

Corporation & Enterprise Law, Securities Law
A proxy statement need not have included a "Black-Scholes" valuation of stock options granted to outside (non-employee) directors, thus dismissal of a...

SCHMIDT v. OTTAWA MED. CTR.

Civil Rights, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Labor & Employment Law
When an individual claimant-shareholder enjoys the opportunity for shared control of a closely-held corporation (including profit-sharing...

TYSON FOODS, INC. v. AETOS CORP.

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Corporation & Enterprise Law, M&A
In denying vacatur of previous rulings granting specific performance of a merger agreement, the Court of Chancery properly relied on both federal and...

BOEING CO. v. US

Corporation & Enterprise Law, International Trade, Tax Law
A Treasury Regulation governing accounting for research and development expenses when a taxpayer elects to take a current deduction, 26 C.F.R. section...

PEOPLE v. CAMPBELL

Corporation & Enterprise Law, Sentencing
When a probationer commits both qualifying and nonqualifying offenses or probation violations, the Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act of 2000,...