Business bribes
Subtitle: corporate corruption and the courts
By: Cecil C. Kuhne III
Contributors: American Bar Association. Solo, Small Firm and General Practice Division
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9781634259255
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Corporations; Bribery; Corrupt practices
Description: The world of business is rife with dark and clandestine schemes meant to ensure that deals proceed more quickly--and more advantageously to the payor--than they otherwise would. This book details two dozen of the most important and interesting U.S. judicial opinions dealing with commercial bribery, both domestic and foreign.
Notes: Each chapter considers a case or cases.
Table of contents: title: Part 1. Domestic bribes; title: Winter Olympic games : violating state bribery laws; title: Hotel management : a question of kickbacks; title: Housing repair contractor : bribe or gratuity?; title: Handbag manufacturer : an evidentiary question; title: Telephone utility : a case of price rigging; title: Seismic information : selling surreptitiously; title: Personal injury referrals : a labor union investigation; title: Real estate development : contributions to a mayoral candidate; title: Hospital contracts : the limitations issue; title: Oil field supply : coercing contracts; title: Printing services : commercial bribery and treble damages; title: Indian casinos : neither public nor private; title: Part 2. Foreign bribes; title: Oil from Azerbaijan : a case of investor liability; title: More oil from Azerbaijan :  jurisdiction over foreign nationals; title: Rice to Haiti : business as usual; title: Nigerian offshore rigs : identifying the bribe taker; title: Construction in India : the retaliatory discharge; title: Mexican electricity : pursuing state-owned corporations; title: Panamanian petrochemicals : the legal malpractice angle; title: Tobacco to Venezuela : excluding the private right of action; title: Hungarian telecommunications : assertion of judicial jurisdiction; title: Kazakhstan oil fields : the act of state doctrine; title: Joint ventures in Nigeria : a request for depositions; title: Peruvian payments : the story of a tangled web.