'When accountants and fund managers get involved, corporations can lose sight of their origins.
Among the cases were a number of civil actions involving corporations controlled by the financier Ivan F. Boesky, who pleaded guilty to a criminal charge of securities fraud.
Six days later, the court issued an order calling for new briefs and a reargument on that larger question of whether such suits are proper if they involve corporations or not.
The resolutions involved corporations like Exxon Mobil, PepsiCo and Occidental Petroleum and pertained to about one-third of the university's $65 billion investment portfolio, a portfolio that includes some 5,000 companies.
The questionable shelters, known as LILO and SILO, involve corporations leasing, on paper only, subways, bridges, sewers and other infrastructure, often overseas, and then leasing the facilities back to their owners or operators.
Many of the worst cases that triggered the campaign for libel reform involved corporations suing critics, so these particular sections of the bill are vital to reduce future abuses of libel law.
Japan has plenty of doctors and nurses, a large pharmaceutical industry, involved corporations, and an efficient, if small, military with modern resources.
In the last 20 years the Supreme Court has created a parallel judicial system to resolve disputes involving corporations that is effectively run by the very corporations whose behavior is under investigation.
Remember, a directive is a legal and regulatory act by the European Council, Commission and Parliament, not a "multistakeholder" decision involving corporations, special experts and whoever else can insinuate themselves into the fray.
