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Piercing The Corporate Veil: A Different Delaware Beyond The Boardrooms, Robert Hornstein, Daniel Atkins

Cleveland State Law Review

It is likely that most people today think only of Delaware as a summer vacation destination, or as corporate America's adopted home, but not as home to poverty that bears all the ugly markings of despair, deprivation and neglect. To look at Delaware beyond its boardrooms today is to witness the contradictions and consequences of an economy fueled by the promise that what would be good for the nation's banks and the wealthy would necessarily be good for all Delawareans-and most notably Delaware's poor. Over the course of the last ten years, Delaware's economic renaissance and its legislative centerpiece, the …