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Corporate law theory and practice considers shareholder relations with companies and the implications of ownership separated from control. Yet through the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) bailout and the government's resultant shareholding, ownership and control at many companies have merged, leaving corporate theory and practice for the financial and automotive sectors in chaos. The government's $700 billion bailout is a unique historical event; not merely because of its size, but also because of a resulting ripple through corporate scholarship and practice. This article builds on the author's five testimonies before Congress during the financial crisis and implementation of the TARP bailout and his consultation for the Special Inspector General for TARP. After considering corporat...
... shareholders that also enjoy sovereign immunity from federal securities law and state corporation ... included in the Securities Exchange Act (the "'34 Act" or the "Exchange Act"), and challenges to usi... ofthat bank in order to extract diplomatic concessions from the U.S. government.106 Another u...
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...The Law of Nations 2. Subject to Revision 3. By "the Sovereign" B. From the Law of Nations to ... Jiang Zemin in 2002, during a diplomatic visit to the United States. The suit against Presi...
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... the foreign state is not entitled to immunity" under another section of the FSIA or under "any a... the FSIA's "expropriation exception," §1605(a)(3), which expressly exempts from immunity certain ca... into some disarray: Foreign nations' diplomatic pressure sometimes prompted the Department to file...
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Austria
Supreme Court for Civil and Criminal Matters
In re Karl Katary: Decision of 3 March 1977
Initiation by a staff member of the IAEA enjoying diplomatic immunity of proceedings under Austrian law concerning the custody of his minor child - Submission of a counter-application by the child's mother - Appointment by the Court of first instance of a curator as a result of failure of its attempt to serve notice of its decision to the child's father - Article 32 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations
Switzerland
Administrative Tribunal of the Republic and Canton of Geneva
v. Department of Justice and Police: Judgement of 15 June 1977
Administrative decision suspending the driving licence of a WHO official enjoying immunity from criminal, civil and administrative...
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...(3) If paragraphs (c)(1) and (2) of this section are ..., questions of jurisdiction and of state immunity must be addressed to the court and not to the Depa...
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- Adella Chiminya Tachiona, on Her Own Behalf on Behalf of Her Late Husband Tapfuma Chiminya Tachiona, and on Behalf of all Others Similarly Situated, Efridah Pfebve, on Her Own Behalf and on Behalf of Her Late Brother Metthew Pfebve, Elliot Pfebve, on His Own Behalf and on Behalf of His Brother Metthew Pfebve, Evelyn Masaiti, on Her Own Behalf, Maria Del Carmen Stevens, on Her Own Behalf, on Behalf of Her Late Husband David Yendall Stevens, and on Behalf of all Others Similarly Situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees-Cross-Appellants, Robert Gabriel Mugabe, in His Individual and Personal Capacity, Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front, Stan Mudenge, Jonathan Moyo, Certain Other Unknown Named Senior Officers of Zanu-Pf, Defendants, v. United States of America, Intervenor-Appellant-Cross-Appellee., 386 F.3d 205 (2nd Cir. 2004)
... cross-appeal both turn on questions of immunity. The district court held that Mugabe and Mudenge wwere entitled to diplomatic and head-of-state immunity, but that their immunit...
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... were recognized as appropriate "for diplomatic, rather than legal," resolution. (3) Due to the po...
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... is deprived of a right, privilege, immunity, or protection named in the Constitution and secur...
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... beyond the scope of the exception to immunity from execution set forth in 28U.S.C. . § 1610(a)(.... People's Republic of China, No. 18 Misc. 302 (S.D.N.Y. Feb. 2, 2010). . Without filin... representations to the US side through diplomatic channel[s] and stressed that China enjoys sovereig...
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...No. 08–1555. Argued March 3, 2010—Decided June 1, 2010 . Respondents, who we... does not govern petitioner’s claim of immunity. Pp. 4–20. (a) Under the common-law doctrine ... Department granted a sovereign’s diplomatic request for a “suggestion of immunity,” the di...