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Table of Cases=xi
Table of Codes, Restatements, and Statutes=xvii
Author's Note and Acknowledgments=xxi
Chapter 1. Agency : Basic Matters=3
Section 1. Basic Contractual Authority=3
Note on the Purposes of Agency Law=3
Note on Terminology in Agency Law=4
Note on Actual Authority=5
Note on Apparent Authority=6
Note on Agency by Estoppel=7
Note on the Consequences of Authority=7
Curto v. Illini Manors, Inc.=9
Note on Agency Creation=15
Note on Inherent Authority=15
Note on Ratification=16
Johnson v. Hospital Service Plan=17
The Language of Silence / Peter Tiersma=22
Note on Terminating an Agency Relationship=24
Section 2. The Agent's Duty of Care=25
Carrier v. McLlarky=26
Oxford Shipping Co. v. New Hampshire Trading Corp.=28
Section 3. The Agent's Duty of Loyalty=31
Note on Remedies for an Agent's Breach of Fiduciary Duties=32
Reading v. Regem=33
Note on Reading v. Regem=35
Town & Country House & Home Service v. Newbery=36
Section 4. The Principal's Duty of Indemnification=40
Admiral Oriental Line v. United States=40
Note on Subagents and Coagents=42
Section 5. Notice and Imputation of Knowledge=43
Note on Imputation of Knowledge to a Principal=43
Note on Legal Notification to Agents=44
Section 6. Temporary and Ambiguous Principals, and the Flexibility of Agency Law=45
Norby v. Bankers Life Company of Des Moines, Iowa=45
Chapter 2. Agency and Tort : Respondeat Superior=49
Section 1. Agents and Employees=49
Note on the Justifications of Respondeat Superior=49
Note on Terminology=50
Heims v. Hanke=51
Section 2. Employees Versus Independent Contractors=53
Section 3. Scope of Employment=54
Christensen v. Swenson=54
Fiocco v. Carver=58
Note on Scope of Employment=60
Ira S. Bushey & Sons, Inc. v. United States=61
Lisa M. v. Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital=64
Note on Employee Liability=75
Problem=76
Section 4. Temporary Employees=76
Charles v. Barrett=76
Section 5. Tort Liability for Principals Outside the Scope of Employment=77
1. Principals Directing Agents' Tortious Conduct=77
2. Ratification=78
EEOC v. Federal Express Corp.=78
3. Nondelegable duties=82
Note on Nondelegable Duties and Strict Liability in Tort Law=82
4. Tortious Misrepresentations and Apparent Employees=83
Chapter 3. General Partnerships=85
Section 1. Background and Uniform Laws=85
Section 2. Formation of General Partnerships=86
Martin v. Peyton=89
Note on Debt and Equity=91
Section 3. Partnership by Estoppel=92
Section 4. What Exactly Is a Partnership?=93
Fairway Development Co. v. Title Insurance Co. of Minnesota=94
Section 5. Authority in Partnerships=96
RNR Invs. Ltd. P'ship v. Peoples First Cmty. Bank=100
Section 6. Control=103
Summers v. Dooley=104
National Biscuit Co. v. Stroud=106
Section 7. Partnership Property=108
Section 8. Accounting=110
Note on Partnership Accounts=110
Note on Profit and Loss Sharing=111
Problem 1=111
Problem 2=112
Note on Distributions=112
Note on the Basics of Partnership Taxation=112
Section 9. A Partner's Fiduciary Duties=112
Meinhard v. Salmon=115
Section 10. The Liability of a Partnership for the Activities of a Partner=120
Moren v. Jax Rest.=121
Section 11. Individual Partners' Liability for Partnership Obligations=123
Section 12. The Partner's Partnership Interest=125
Bauer v. Blomfield Company/Holden Joint Venture=126
Section 13. The Dissociation of a Partner=131
Girard Bank v. Haley=133
Page v. Page=135
Note on the Consequences of Dissociation=138
Section 14. The Buyout of a Partner's Share After Dissociation=140
Drashner v. Sorenson=140
Note on RUPA's Buyout Provisions=145
Note on Business Valuation=146
Warnick v. Warnick=148
Section 15. Winding Up and Termination=151
Note on Winding Up and Termination=151
Creel v. Lilly=152
Note on Capital Accounts and Termination=161
Kovacik v. Reed=162
Problem=165
Chapter 4. Other Partnership Forms=167
Section 1. The Limited Liability Partnership=167
Note on Terminology=168
Note on Limited Liability Partnerships=169
Ederer v. Gursky=170
Section 2. The Limited Partnership : Introduction and Limited Liability=177
The Existence of State and Tax Partnerships : A Primer / Donald J. Weidner=178
Note on the Uniform Limited Partnership Acts=179
Holzman v. De Escamilla=181
Section 3. The Limited Partnership : Fiduciary Duties=183
Gotham Partners, L.P. v. Hallwood Realty Partners, L.P.=183
Chapter 5. Closely Held Corporations=193
Section 1. Background on Corporation Law=193
Section 2. Corporate Structure : The Board of Directors=194
Charlestown Boot & Shoe Co. v. Dunsmore=195
Section 3. Electing the Board=196
Schnell v. Chris-Craft Industries, Inc.=198
Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows, Inc. v. Ringling=200
Section 4. Corporate Purpose and the Practical Power of the Board=209
Dodge v. Ford Motor Co.=210
Note on Dodge v. Ford and the Power of Controllers=215
Why We Should Stop Teaching Dodge v. Ford / Lynn Stout=218
Section 5. Special Protections for Minority Shareholders in Closely Held Corporations=219
Donahue v. Rodd Electrotype Co.=219
Meiselman v. Meiselman=230
Chapter 6. Limited Liability Companies=243
Section 1. Management and Authority=245
Section 2. Fiduciary Duties=251
Pappas v Tzolis=257
Solar Cells, Inc. v. True N. Partners LLC=260
VGS, Inc. v. Castiel=267
Section 3. Dissolution=272
3.1. Dissolution for Deadlock=273
Fisk Ventures, LLC v. Segal 2009=273
Matter of 1545 Ocean Ave., LLC=279
3.2. Dissolution for Oppression=286
What Buy-Out Rights, Fiduciary Duties, and Dissolution Remedies should Apply in the Case of the Minority Owner of a Limited Liability Company? / Sandra K. Miller=286
3.3. Distributions of Assets and Profits After Dissolution=288
Section 4. "Series" LLCs=289
Section 5. Litigation Procedure in LLCs=290
Chapter 7. Nonprofits and Related Organizational Forms=293
Section 1. Nonprofit Organizations : Nature, Theory, and Organization=293
The Role of the Nonprofit Enterprise / Henry B. Hansmann=293
Section 2. Vicarious Liability in Nonprofit Organizations=296
Smith & Edwards v. Golden Spike Little League=296
Section 3. Fiduciary Duties in Nonprofit Organizations=299
Section 4. Hybrid Organizations=300
Governing and Financing Blended Enterprise / Dana Brakman Reiser=301
Index=311