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...Atlanta showroom Illuminations will be displaying the Plusminus lighting system by Stefan Diez for Vibia, which features a textile strap that encourages lighting designers to create bespoke configurations...
...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...
...It ended up losing a $38mn tax break from its headquarter state of Georgia....
...in Georgia....
...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....
...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....
...DTE, and Southwest Gas Corporation....
...“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....
...Though Biden beat Trump by more than 7mn in the popular vote in 2020, his electoral college victory boiled down to margins of a few thousand here and a few thousand there in states such as Arizona and Georgia...
...The action now is in so-called holistic indices that attempt to assess corporations’ every attitude or behaviour and boil it down to a single metric. Call it the goodness standard....
...Now influential voices on the right have joined them, claiming that corporate America is pushing a radical progressive ideology....
...DeSantis, who is up for re-election this year and thought to be eyeing a White House run in 2024, has slammed Disney as a “woke” corporation....
...“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?”...
...Nor is he the bleeding-heart executive making progressive policy through his company’s benefits package....
...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....
...After Ukraine applied for EU membership (followed by Moldova and Georgia) a debate is taking place about whether to grant the official status of candidate for admission....
...Netflix has defined itself with a radical “no rules” corporate culture, extolling the importance of both creative freedom and progressive values....
...Koch Industries’ Georgia-Pacific is using a similar manoeuvre to try to limit its liabilities against asbestos claims....
...But companies are under pressure to project a more progressive and socially conscious image with environment, social and governance objectives suddenly high on boardroom agendas....
...“Georgia is the leading edge of a movement all around this country to restrict voting access,” Frazier told CNBC on Wednesday....
...It began last month when Coca-Cola, Delta Air Lines and other large companies condemned a Republican sponsored law that would restrict voting in Georgia....
...Some tax cuts that Donald Trump ushered in for wealthy individuals and corporations will also be rolled back, and there will probably be other moves to create a more progressive tax code....
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