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Shotgun Weddings: Director And Officer Fiduciary Duties In Government-Controlled And Partially-Nationalized Corporations, David M. Barnes Oct 2010

Shotgun Weddings: Director And Officer Fiduciary Duties In Government-Controlled And Partially-Nationalized Corporations, David M. Barnes

Vanderbilt Law Review

Corporate law considers the affairs of a corporation to be private activity. The prevailing concept of the firm is a nexus of private contract rights among participants in an economic enterprise. But for many U.S. auto and financial services corporations, the events of the fall of 2008 and the winter of 2009 turned this presumption on its head. The U.S. government's $700 billion bailout injected an alien actor-the United States Treasury-into this once-private enterprise. The bailout enabled the Treasury to take a direct equity stake in many of the nation's struggling auto and financial services corporations. In the fall of …


Saying What They Mean: The False Claims Act Amendments In The Wake Of Allison Engine, Jeremy E. Gersh Jan 2010

Saying What They Mean: The False Claims Act Amendments In The Wake Of Allison Engine, Jeremy E. Gersh

Journal of Business & Technology Law

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Congress Declares Checkmate: How The Fraud Enforcement And Recovery Act Of 2009 Strengthens The Civil False Claims Act And Counters The Courts, Jeffrey L. Handwerker, Matthew Solomson, Mahnu V. Davar, Kathleen H. Harne Jan 2010

Congress Declares Checkmate: How The Fraud Enforcement And Recovery Act Of 2009 Strengthens The Civil False Claims Act And Counters The Courts, Jeffrey L. Handwerker, Matthew Solomson, Mahnu V. Davar, Kathleen H. Harne

Journal of Business & Technology Law

No abstract provided.


There Is Always A Better Way: Proposed Legislative Improvements For The Federal Procurement System, Jim Moye Jan 2010

There Is Always A Better Way: Proposed Legislative Improvements For The Federal Procurement System, Jim Moye

Richmond Journal of Law and the Public Interest

This Article examines whether legislative and policy changes in the federal procurement system will result in major financial and integrity changes. Note that while government procurement activities undertaken by individual states are a substantive part of the Nation's economy, this Article is restricted to federal procurement law and policy. Part I discusses Title 41 of the United States Code, which provides the statutory authority for all federal procurement activities. Part I also briefly covers the supporting regulations known as the Federal Acquisition Rules ("FAR"). Part II examines the roles, membership and obligations of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, the …


There Is Always A Better Way: Proposed Legislative Improvements For The Federal Procurement System, Jim Moye Jan 2010

There Is Always A Better Way: Proposed Legislative Improvements For The Federal Procurement System, Jim Moye

Richmond Public Interest Law Review

This Article examines whether legislative and policy changes in the federal procurement system will result in major financial and integrity changes. Note that while government procurement activities undertaken by individual states are a substantive part of the Nation's economy, this Article is restricted to federal procurement law and policy. Part I discusses Title 41 of the United States Code, which provides the statutory authority for all federal procurement activities. Part I also briefly covers the supporting regulations known as the Federal Acquisition Rules ("FAR"). Part II examines the roles, membership and obligations of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, the …