in terrorem

• Closing the Loopholes: New Laws For In Terrorem (No Contest) Clauses In Wills And Trusts.

Continuing with its effort to make New Hampshire the best trust environment in the United States, legislators recently took steps to reform some of it...

• Mondaq Business Briefing
• Nbr. 2012, January 2012

• Closing the Loopholes: New Laws For In Terrorem (No Contest) Clauses In Wills And Trusts

Continuing with its effort to make New Hampshire the best trust environment in the United States, legislators recently took steps to reform some of it...

• Mondaq Business Briefing
• United States Law Articles in English

• Where 'In Terrorem' Should Spark Fear

Reproduced with permission of Trusts & Estates magazine (February 2007). In Florida, no-contest clauses — aka in terrorem clauses — are void as ag...

• Mondaq Business Briefing
• United States Law Articles in English

• Kasapis v. High Point Furniture Co., Inc., (Ohio 2006)

Probate – trust – in terrorem – lineal descendants – illegitimate – tax returns – disclosure – corporation - proprietorship.

• Ohio Supreme Court

• Where 'In Terrorem' Should Spark Fear.

Reproduced with permission of Trusts & Estates magazine (February 2007). In Florida, no-contest clauses - aka in terrorem clauses - are void as agai...

• Mondaq Business Briefing
• Nbr. 2007, January 2007

• A Case for Amending the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act: Why Increasing Shareholders’ Rights to Sue Will Help Prevent the Next Financial Crisis and Better Inform hhe Investing Public

Introduction. II. Background to the PSLRA and Congress’ Efforts to Correct Abusive Litigation Practices. A. In Terrorem Complaints and Abusive Litigation which Concerned Congress before they Enacted the PSLRA. B. How Congress Addressed these Problems when it Enacted the PSLRA. 1. Pleading with Elements “Particularity” and Alleging “Strong Inference” of the Required State of Mind While Denying Discovery. 2. Professional Plaintiffs, Races to the Courthouse and the Lead Plaintiff as an Institutional Investor. 3. Mandatory Rule 11 Sanctions to Make Whole Those Subjected to Bad Faith Litigation. III. Reducing the PSLRA’S Pleading Requirements Will Improve Corporate Transparency and Better Inform the Investing Public by Exposing Poorly-Reasoned Cor...

• Business Law Brief
• Nbr. VI-2, April 2009

• In Terrorem

[Latin, In fright or terror; by way of a threat.] A description of a legacy or gift given by will with the condition that ...

• West's Encyclopedia of American Law
• Fri–Jam

• Corporate Governance and the New Hedge Fund Activism: An Empirical Analysis

Hedge funds are not "normal" institutional investors. They launch proxy fights for corporate control. This article undertakes a legal, empirical, and theoretical study in an effort to answer this question. The heart of the article is an empirical study of obtainable instances of hedge fund activism during 2005 and the 2006 proxy season. This article's empirical survey found over 50 instances of hedge fund activism, and also found the in terrorem effect of these examples to be considerable. Despite some claims that hedge funds often hold short positions or are otherwise dangerously conflicted, the survey found very limited evidence for this; the survey also found that hedge funds have, in fact, disclosed these conflicts, though the proxy and Williams Act rules in this respect should be c...

• Journal of Corporation Law
• Vol. 32 Nbr. 4, July 2007

• AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion, 563 U.S. (2011)

...Othex courts have noted the risk of "in terrorem"settlements that claxx actions entail, see, e.g., ...

• U.S. Supreme Court

• Modie v. Andrews, (Ohio 2002)

will contest clause - in terrorem clause - good-faith exception-Civ.R. 41 (A) - R.C. 2101.24(A)(1)(m)-probate assets

• Ohio Supreme Court