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Seattle University School of Law

Journal

2007

Voting

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Keynote Speech, Mark Crispin Miller Jan 2007

Keynote Speech, Mark Crispin Miller

Seattle University Law Review

Corporations tend to work against immediate contact. They tend to discourage familial bonds and popular interaction. They are allergic to democracy. Because corporations are usually in the business of selling deviations of various kinds, they tend to want a world in which each one of us is completely walled off in a portable, wonderful land of communication technology. Corporations want a world where everything is done for us. A world where everything is presented to us through a corporate medium, so that what once looked like satire is now commonly represented as an admirable ideal. To that end, I am …


Curbing Shareholder Voting Groups With A New Philosophy For Washington's Business Corporation Act, Tilman Larson Jan 2007

Curbing Shareholder Voting Groups With A New Philosophy For Washington's Business Corporation Act, Tilman Larson

Seattle University Law Review

This Comment explores Washington's changing philosophy of shareholder voting and how the current developments to Washington's corporate law have impacted shareholder voting group rights. In light of Washington's corporate law history, the underlying reasons for the amendments, and case law, this Comment argues that the recent amendments have altered, rather than preserved, what has been historically the true philosophy underlying Washington corporate law: minority shareholder rights. Part II of this Comment tracks the evolution of voting group rights through past Washington law and until the present Washington Business Corporation Act. Part III discusses the underlying reasons for the amendments, addresses …