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...The court is deliberating on another case, Relentless Inc vs Department of Commerce, that seeks to overturn a 40-year-old legal doctrine that says courts should generally defer to agencies’ interpretation...
...They argue that bankruptcy schemes deployed by solvent corporations are an abuse of bankruptcy courts and deny wronged people their right to trial by jury....
...Legal experts said the ruling could set a precedent and dissuade companies from using complex bankruptcy schemes to handle mass tort claims. 3M, Koch Industries subsidiary Georgia-Pacific, Trane Technologies...
...For example, last year Georgia-Pacific paid $2.5bn in dividends to Koch Industries even though it spun off a unit facing thousands of asbestos claims in 2017....
...The first of these cases was filed in 2017 by Georgia Pacific, a subsidiary of privately held Koch Industries which still faces billions of dollars of asbestos claims....
...“This is a bridge too far in a case already replete with questionable manipulations of the bankruptcy code by one of the wealthiest corporations on earth,” the states wrote in the filing....
...Since the beginning of October, Maga Inc, a newly created Trump super Pac, has spent $8.5mn on ads in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada and Arizona....
...The New York Philharmonic’s 2022-23 season opens at the new David Geffen Hall on October 12, lincolncenter.org...
...Now vice-president of philanthropy at Walmart.org, which co-ordinates the charitable efforts of the company and its foundation, Gehrki has helped launch a $100mn racial equity centre, brought healthier foods...
...“The divisive merger law allows a Texas corporation to unilaterally rid itself of some or all of its debts by so declaring. How could anyone think such a law would not be abused?”...
...Critics worry that taxpayers’ money is being lavished on corporations, but supporters see incentives as a down payment on a region’s future economic gains....
...In 1936, Walker Evans walked past a photographer’s studio in Savannah, Georgia, and noticed a grid of tiny portraits in the shop window....
...Koch Industries’ Georgia-Pacific is using a similar manoeuvre to try to limit its liabilities against asbestos claims....
...“Georgia is the leading edge of a movement all around this country to restrict voting access,” Frazier told CNBC on Wednesday....
...GoFundMe is a for-profit business, but Wilford has helped expand and develop the company’s independent charitable arm, GoFundMe.org, which accepts donations from corporate partners as well as individuals...
...To avoid a huge backlash in the middle of the Olympic Games, it’s time for the heads of Japan Inc to come out and speak....
...Milton Mueller, a professor of public policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology, said that some of the opponents of the deal had long warned of the dangers of politicising fights over internet addressing...
...He was previously a senior vice-president in the office of strategic initiatives at the US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC)....
...Until the sell-off to Ethos, each registration of a .org domain directly funded ISOC....
...“Masculinities: Liberation through Photography” is at the Barbican from February 20-May 17; barbican.org.uk. The catalogue, edited by Alona Pardo, is published by Prestel....
...That’s a gift.” tompkinsconservation.org. The Tompkins-created parks form part of Chile’s new Ruta de los Parques (rutadelosparques.org)....
...‘Everybody has to have a plan’ California-based Symantec said last month that it had recorded three instances of deepfaked audio attacks on corporations in 2019....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on January 8 2020. @2020 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...So Amazon inc tried to use the convoluted procedures of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, known as Icann, to press its case....
...SunTrust has a large presence in Florida and Georgia, and the combined group will become a more formidable competitor to larger rivals in Washington DC, in Baltimore in Maryland and in Richmond, Virginia...
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