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Texas Enacts Business-Friendly Reforms in Bid to Dethrone Delaware’s Corporate Dominance

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The Texas Legislature recently has taken Texas-sized steps intended to make the state a more attractive place for companies to form, reincorporate, or relocate, further advancing Texas’s efforts to rival Delaware as a...more

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Foreign Affairs of the Books and Records Kind

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Some years ago, the question whether New York courts have subject matter jurisdiction over petitions to dissolve foreign business entities garnered much interest amongst business divorce lawyers and on this blog. The debate...more

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Another Door Closes to Federal Court in Judicial Dissolution Cases

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Not for the first time, I find myself intrigued by the federal courts’ resistance to hearing state law claims for judicial dissolution of business entities where subject matter jurisdiction otherwise exists based on diversity...more

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Supreme Court Reinforces Strict Rule On Citizenship of Unincorporated Entities for Diversity Jurisdiction to the Detriment of...

Article III of the U.S. Constitution extends the jurisdiction of federal courts to “[c]ontroversies … between Citizens of different States.” U.S. Const. art. III, § 2, cl. 1. “This rule is easy enough to apply to humans, but...more

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