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  2. Corporate liability - Wikipedia

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    Some jurisdictions use criminal and civil systems in parallel, thereby expanding options for pursuing legal accountability for legal persons and for making political judgments on when to use the criminal law in order to maximise the impact of those cases that are prosecuted. The United States’ system of corporate liability is an example of ...

  3. De facto corporation and corporation by estoppel - Wikipedia

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    There must have been a good faith attempt to comply with the statute by the intended incorporators (for example, if the articles of incorporation were mailed to the appropriate office, but addressed to the wrong person, lost in the mail, or not filed by the corporation by the time the corporation began acting in an official capacity);

  4. Basic Inc. v. Levinson - Wikipedia

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    Basic Inc. v. Levinson, 485 U.S. 224 (1988), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States articulated the "fraud-on-the-market theory" as giving rise to a rebuttable presumption of reliance in securities fraud cases. [1]

  5. Here are 2022's top legal cases in business - AOL

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    In one of the business world’s most closely-watched criminal trials, Silicon Valley entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes was convicted on four counts of criminal fraud and sentenced to 11 years and ...

  6. List of corporate collapses and scandals - Wikipedia

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    Peregrine Systems [8] [10] corporate executives convicted of accounting fraud; Phar-Mor [8] company lied to shareholders. CEO was eventually sentenced to prison for fraud and the company eventually became bankrupt; Qwest Communications [10] RadioShack CEO David Edmondson lied about attaining a B.A. degree from Pacific Coast Baptist College in ...

  7. L'Estrange v F Graucob Ltd - Wikipedia

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    L'Estrange v F Graucob Ltd [1934] 2 KB 394 is a leading English contract law case on the incorporation of terms into a contract by signature.There are exceptions to the rule that a person is bound by his or her signature, including fraud, misrepresentation and non est factum.

  8. United States corporate law - Wikipedia

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    WO Douglas and CM Shanks, Cases and Materials on the Law of Management of Business Units (Callaghan 1931) Robert C. Clark, Corporate Law (Aspen 1986) A Cox, DC Bok, RA Gorman and MW Finkin, Labor Law Cases and Materials (14th edn 2006) JH Choper, JC Coffee and R. J. Gilson, Cases and Materials on Corporations (7th edn Aspen 2009)

  9. Creasey v Breachwood Motors Ltd - Wikipedia

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    Mr Richard Southwell lifted the corporate veil to enforce Mr Creasey's wrongful dismissal claim. He held that the directors of Breachwood Motors Ltd, who had also been directors of Breachwood Welwyn Ltd, had themselves deliberately ignored the separate legal personality of the companies by transferring assets between the companies without regard to their duties as directors and shareholders.