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Full-Text Articles in Business Organizations Law
Defamation Of Corporations, Louis J. Bloomfield
Defamation Of Corporations, Louis J. Bloomfield
Cleveland State Law Review
Since the sixteenth century courts of law have held that an individual may bring an action for damages for libel or slander. When corporations came into their own, occasions arose where the question of a corporation's right to bring suit for libel or slander had to be decided. The first cases centered discussion on whether a corporation could sue on the basis of similarity to a natural person (an individual) or to an artificial person (an entity). While courts long have made a distinction between the artificial and the natural person, the law has been established that, like an individual, …
Unfair Competition In Use Of Corporate Names, John P. Diamond
Unfair Competition In Use Of Corporate Names, John P. Diamond
Cleveland State Law Review
It is well settled that the law will give equitable protection to the prior appropriator of a corporate name against a subsequent unauthorized use by a junior corporation. In most states statutory recognition is given to the property right which a corporation acquires in its own name, usually in the form of a prohibition against another corporation choosing a name the same as or deceptively similar to that of the prior incorporator. Although it has been suggested by one author that the courts should give broader effect to the statutes, nevertheless the great majority of the cases are decided under …
Liability Of Parent Corporation For Tort Of Subsidiary, Richard H. Burgess
Liability Of Parent Corporation For Tort Of Subsidiary, Richard H. Burgess
Cleveland State Law Review
Much has been written about liability of parent corporations for acts of their subsidiaries, but much of the material principally concludes that there is no clear law on the subject. The present article is an attempt to illustrate several of the more recent cases defining various lower common denominators useful in analysing corporate entity problems related to parent and subsidiary corporations.
One-Man Corporate Entity In Torts, James A. Thomas
One-Man Corporate Entity In Torts, James A. Thomas
Cleveland State Law Review
This article is confined to a summary of the liability of a sole shareowner for the torts of his employees or of himself in the execution of the corporate business.