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The New School (then the New School for Social Research) – absorbed Parsons School of Design in 1970; absorbed Mannes College of Music in 1989. New York University – acquired Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1898; acquired New York College of Dentistry in 1925; acquired Polytechnic University in 2008, merged in 2014
The de facto merger doctrine states that courts will look to substance over form when determining whether statutory merger law applies to a company's shareholders.Thus, where an asset acquisition leads to the same result as a statutory merger, these jurisdictions demand that shareholders are given the same rights as in the statutory merger.
Van Gorkom 488 A.2d 858 (Del. 1985) [1] is a United States corporate law case of the Delaware Supreme Court, discussing a director's duty of care. It is often called the "Trans Union case" . Van Gorkom is sometimes referred to as the most important case regarding business organizations because it shows a unique scenario when the board is found ...
Law Enforcement officers stand at the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court on July 11, 2022 in Washington, DC. ... In one of the business world’s most closely-watched criminal trials, Silicon Valley ...
Scottish economist John Law convinced the French government to support a monopoly trade venture in Louisiana. He marketed shares based on great wealth, which was highly exaggerated. A speculative bubble grew and then collapsed, and Law was expelled. South Sea Company: Great Britain: Sep 1720: Slavery and colonialism
In business, consolidation or amalgamation is the merger and acquisition of many smaller companies into a few much larger ones. In the context of financial accounting , consolidation refers to the aggregation of financial statements of a group company as consolidated financial statements .
This case was the beginning of the plenary power legal doctrine that has been used in Indian case law to limit tribal sovereignty. Elk v. Wilkins, 112 U.S. 94 (1884) An Indian cannot make himself a citizen of the United States without the consent and the co-operation of the United States Federal government. United States v.
Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005), [1] was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court held, 5–4, that the use of eminent domain to transfer land from one private owner to another private owner to further economic development does not violate the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment.