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Shareholder Suits: Good News and Bad News for Corporate Executives
Jones, Thomas M.
23
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4
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Summer
1981
):
77
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86
Assesses the legal hazards that corporate executives in the U.S. face in connection with shareholder derivative and class action lawsuits. Incidence of shareholder lawsuits in the U.S.; Examination of complaints raised by shareholder-plaintiffs; Conclusions that can be drawn from the resolution of shareholder lawsuits; Factors of a court trial that influence the tendency towards the settlement of shareholder suits.