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The Corporate Conspiracy Vacuum (Formerly "Corporate Conspiracy: How Not Calling A Conspiracy A Conspiracy Is Warping The Law On Corporate Wrongdoing"), J.S. Nelson
J.S. Nelson
The intracorporate conspiracy doctrine immunizes an enterprise and its agents from conspiracy prosecution based on the legal fiction that an enterprise and its agents are a single actor incapable of the meeting of two minds to form a conspiracy. The doctrine, however, misplaces incentives in contravention of agency law, criminal law, tort law, and public policy. As a result of this absence of accountability, harmful behavior is ordered and performed without consequences, and the victims of the behavior suffer without appropriate remedy.
This vacuum at the center of American conspiracy law has now warped the doctrines around it. Especially in …
The Intracorporate Conspiracy Trap (Formerly "Perverse Incentives And Corporate Conspiracy: Why We Are Asking The Wrong Basic Question In Assessing Liability For Corporations And Their Agents"), J.S. Nelson
J.S. Nelson
In the recent case of Commonwealth v. Lynn, Pennsylvania prosecuted a Roman Catholic priest who had not abused children himself but who, to protect the archdiocese that employed him, covered up information about priests who had abused children and reassigned the priests to new parishes. This case was the first of its kind to bring criminal charges against an official of the Church solely for how he supervised the careers of priests to protect his employer.
Because the intracorporate conspiracy doctrine prohibits it, the state—as is now typical of both state and federal jurisdictions around the country—was unable to prosecute …
The Conflict Of Interest Inherent In A Corporation Paying For Its Employee’S Counsel: A Better Model For Preventing And Addressing Corporate Crime, Josephine Sandler Nelson
The Conflict Of Interest Inherent In A Corporation Paying For Its Employee’S Counsel: A Better Model For Preventing And Addressing Corporate Crime, Josephine Sandler Nelson
J.S. Nelson
Although the U.S. Supreme Court as far back as the 1981 case of Wood v. Georgia[1] identified the inherent conflict of interest that exists when an employer controls its employee’s counsel, until now, no uniform solution has existed to protect the employee’s rights in these situations.
Currently, a single attorney, as in Wood, may often represent both the corporation[2] and the corporation’s employees. The employer can control the employee’s defense because agency law recognizes only that the interests of the principal—the employer—are at stake.[3] Under agency law, the employer controls the defense because it may …
Protecting Employee Rights And Prosecuting Corporate Crimes: A Proposal For Criminal Cumis Counsel, Josephine Sandler Nelson
Protecting Employee Rights And Prosecuting Corporate Crimes: A Proposal For Criminal Cumis Counsel, Josephine Sandler Nelson
J.S. Nelson
To address multi-dimensional conflict of interest problems in directors and officers (D&O) indemnification cases, we propose a solution that was originally developed for civil insurance cases in California, but that has an even more powerful and appropriate application in the context of criminal employee defendants.
Corporate crime costs the United States a staggering $600 billion a year. By contrast, the total cost of all non-corporate crime in 2001 from robbery, burglary, larceny-theft, and motor vehicle theft combined was $17.2 billion; less than one-third of what fraudulent activities at the single company of Enron cost investors, pensioners, and employees in the …
Federal Courts — Proposed Changes To The Ninth Circuit And The Federal Courts Of Appeals — Final Report Of The Commission On Structural Alternatives For The Federal Courts Of Appeals; And S. 253, The Ninth Circuit Reorganization Act, Josephine Sandler Nelson
Federal Courts — Proposed Changes To The Ninth Circuit And The Federal Courts Of Appeals — Final Report Of The Commission On Structural Alternatives For The Federal Courts Of Appeals; And S. 253, The Ninth Circuit Reorganization Act, Josephine Sandler Nelson
J.S. Nelson
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