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Does California Make A Good Neighbor For State Farm? Or Are California Courts Misapplying The Supreme Court's Punitive Damages Analysis? - Part II
Punitive Damages Based Upon Out-of-State Conduct Does Not Further Any Legitimate State Interest No state may punish a defendant for engaging in lawful conduct. "To punish a person because he has done what the law plainly allows him to do is a due process violation of the most basic sort." Gore, 517...
Read MoreJones Day's Emad H. Khalil On Iraq: A Guarded Optimism
Editor: Could you give our readers something of your background and experience?Khalil: I am the co-head of Jones Day's project development and finance practice, and my own practice encompasses a broad range of corporate finance activity, including mergers and acquisitions, banking, restructurings...
Read MoreDoes California Make a Good Neighbor For State Farm?Or Are California Courts Misapplying the Supreme Court's Punitive Damages Analysis? - Part I
Part II of this article appears in the April 2004 issue of The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel.California Courts are struggling to apply the punitive damages analysis mandated by the United States Supreme Court in State Farm Mutual Auto. Ins. Co. v. Campbell, 123 S. Ct. 1513 (April 7, 2003). State...
Read MoreSEC Initiatives On Shareholder Access To Director Nominations
The SEC has begun to implement proxy rule changes that will fundamentally alter the balance between shareholders and directors of U.S. public companies. New rules mandating expanded disclosure about a company's nominating process became effective on January 1, 2004. In addition, the SEC has issued...
Read MoreScandinavia - Law Firms Jones Day: Representing Swedish Clients In The U.S. And Across The Globe
Editor: Would you give our readers some idea of your background and experience?Cargill: I went to Georgia Tech and then Harvard Law School. Following three years in the navy, I returned to Atlanta in 1976 to practice with a regional firm by the name of Hansell & Post. I was with Hansell &...
Read MoreReport Card On The Merger Of Jones Day And Gouldens: A Model Marriage
Editor: I am pleased to speak jointly with Russell Carmedy and David Clossey to get an overview of how the newly merged firm has performed in its first year. But first, Russell, may I introduce you to our readers and would you share a bit of your background with us?Carmedy: In 1999 I became the...
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