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September 2018
The National Football League won two high-profile legal battles against superstar players in 2016, in both cases winning on appeal after a federal district court judge ruled against them. The legal considerations that proved decisive in the Tom Brady and Adrian Peterson cases were not particularly complicated or new, and without celebrity and salient secondary...
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“Shareholder oppression” is action by the directors or controlling shareholders of a closely held corporation [1] that is unfairly prejudicial to a minority shareholder. Oppression can take many forms. Three examples – termination of a shareholder employee, financial freeze out, and exclusion from corporate affairs – are described here, but other types of oppression may also arise,...
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