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PRELIMINARIES
PERSONHOOD
POWERS
PUBLIC/PRIVATE, HUH?
POSITIVE AND PROBLEMS
100
EAST INDIA COMPANY
What's a predecessor to the modern business corporation?
100
Free speech
What is guaranteed to corporations under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution?
100
This can be done in its own name
What is the corporate power to sue or be sued?
100
A corporation owned by another corporation
What is a wholly-owned subsidiary?
100
big, really big advantage.
What is the limited liability offered to officers, directors and shareholders?
200
Starting with California Corporations Code section 100
Where would you find California's law governing corporations?
200
Freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures
What is a right guaranteed to corporations as persons under the 4th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution?
200
Buy, sell, own, mortgage, you name it.
What can a corporation do with real or personal property?
200
Federal corporation
What is a corporation formed under the authority of a federal statute?
200
Interest expenses, salaries, oil depletion allowances, foreign taxes, yada, yada, yada.
What are some deductions from a corporation's income before taxes are calculated?
300
Variation in a state's treatment between a domestic corporation and a foreign corporation doing business in the state.
What would discourage business firms from coming into the state?
300
Self-incrimination
What is a constitutional right that is not extended to corporations under the U.S. Constitution?
300
Forever, if it wants to.
How long can a corporation exist?
300
How the shares are sold.
What is the difference between a publicly traded corporation and a privately held corporation?
300
Stock certificate
What is the document that represents an ownership interest in a corporation?
400
MBCA
What is 1984 the Model Business Corporation Act?
400
No attorney representing it.
What's one reason a court could dismiss a case brought by a corporation?
400
Become a member
How can a corporation be involved in a partnership?
400
Not-for-profit
What is a corporation called if its purpose is charitable, educational, scientific or religious?
400
The horror of horrors for corporations that make money
What is double taxation?
500
The Flexible Purpose Corporation
In California, what type of corporation can be formed so that a corporation's board of directors can pursue nonprofit purposes and profit purposes without violating fiduciary duties to shareholders?
500
The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Where would you find the corporation's right to due process before being deprived of property?
500
Give money
What's one way a corporation can be involved in a Super Pac?
500
Because you want flexibility regarding the corporate formalities.
What's one reason you would form a close corporation?
500
All of us who make money and spend it.
Who else pays double taxation?