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The Business Judgment Rule
This lesson is intended to familiarize students with the Business Judgment Rule, an essential component of corporate governance.
This lesson is intended to familiarize students with the Business Judgment Rule, an essential component of corporate governance.
This lesson is the first of two designed to familiarize you with aspects of shareholders' derivative litigation and the role played by the business judgment rule. This lesson focuses on demand upon the board of directors. In most states, shareholders are required to make demand upon the board of directors before they can proceed with a derivative suit. The board's response to that demand is reviewed under the business judgment rule. This lesson will take you through the operation of the rule at this critical stage in derivative litigation.
This lesson focuses on the Special Litigation Committee. It is recommended that you complete the first lesson (The Business Judgment Rule in Shareholder Derivative Litigation I: Demand Upon the Board) before beginning this one.
This exercise introduces users to the principal provisions of the California Probate Code which governs intestacy. It also illustrates the application of those provisions to typical fact situations. The exercise explores inheritance by descendants, ancestors and collateral heirs in the context of both separate, community and quasicommunity property. Finally, the program explores subsidiary problems of inheritance such as the rights of posthumous heirs, adopted heirs, illegitimate children, foster-children, the slayer of the decedent and the treatment of the simultaneous death problem.
CANINE (The Complete Article Nine) is a unique set of learning materials designed to assist both law students and lawyers to be effective Article 9 practitioners. It consists of a comprehensive collection of text and interactive problems modeled after a conventional casebook or treatise.
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These interactive problems are intended to be used with CANINE Chapter 3 (The Nature of Secured Credit under Article 9), but also may be used alone.
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These interactive problems are to be used with CANINE Chapter 4 (Scope of Article 9), but they may be used alone also.
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These interactive problems are to be used with Chapter 5 (Classification of Collateral), but also may be used alone.
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These interactive problems are intended for use with CANINE Chapter 6 (Choice of Law), but also may be used alone.
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These interactive problems are intended to be used with CANINE Chapter 7 (Creating an Enforceable Article 9 Security Interest), but also may be used alone.
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These interactive problems are intended to be used with CANINE Chapter 8 (The Specifics of Enforceability -- A Security Agreement Authenticated by the Debtor or Its Legal Equivalent), but also may be used alone.
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These interactive problems are to be used with CANINE Chapter 9 (Specifics of Enforceability -- After-acquired Collateral, Future Advances, Transferred Collateral and Proceeds, and the New Debtor Problem), but they also may be used alone.
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