Part 1. Domestic bribes -- Winter Olympic games : violating state bribery laws -- Hotel management : a question of kickbacks -- Housing repair contractor : bribe or gratuity? -- Handbag manufacturer : an evidentiary question -- Telephone utility : a case of price rigging -- Seismic information : selling surreptitiously -- Personal injury referrals : a labor union investigation -- Real estate development : contributions to a mayoral candidate -- Hospital contracts : the limitations issue -- Oil field supply : coercing contracts -- Printing services : commercial bribery and treble damages -- Indian casinos : neither public nor private -- Part 2. Foreign bribes -- Oil from Azerbaijan : a case of investor liability -- More oil from Azerbaijan : jurisdiction over foreign nationals -- Rice to Haiti : business as usual -- Nigerian offshore rigs : identifying the bribe taker -- Construction in India : the retaliatory discharge -- Mexican electricity : pursuing state-owned corporations -- Panamanian petrochemicals : the legal malpractice angle -- Tobacco to Venezuela : excluding the private right of action -- Hungarian telecommunications : assertion of judicial jurisdiction -- Kazakhstan oil fields : the act of state doctrine -- Joint ventures in Nigeria : a request for depositions -- Peruvian payments : the story of a tangled web.
Summary:
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.
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