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Delaware is the legal home to more major companies than any other state in the country.

A rival candidate sued, and the court held last week that the shed was not a legal home.

A court in the Netherlands, Gucci's legal home for tax reasons, is investigating the matter.

That gave the wine a legal home, even though poets had been singing the praises of the wine in Etruscan times.

ONCE upon a time 11 major companies whose legal home is New York dropped hints that they might move to another state.

His firm represents Gucci, the Italian luxury goods company whose stock listing and legal home are in Amsterdam.

On March 7, Mr. Lutnick and the firm filed suit in Delaware, the partnership's legal home, to enforce the succession plan.

All make their legal home, if not their practical one, in tax havens like Bermuda, Panama and the Netherlands Antilles.

Almost a million business entities have their legal home in Delaware including more than 50% of all U.S. publicly-traded companies and 60% of the Fortune 500.

Read "Why Corporations Choose Delaware" to see why almost a million business entities have chosen to make Delaware their legal home.

Apart from authorized releases, the Woody Woodpecker cartoon most widely available on legal home video is Pantry Panic, as that cartoon has fallen into the public domain.

Delaware, the legal home of many of the nation's leading companies, claims to be entitled to the abandoned property held by companies incorporated there, even if those businesses have headquarters in other states.

But they, as well as hundreds of other flag-of-convenience companies, may soon find their reasons for making their legal homes here eroded by the European Union's instinct to level every playing field.

Tyco paid $2 million, most going to firms controlled by Mr. Abramoff, as part of its successful effort to preserve tax advantages it got from shifting its legal home to Bermuda.

A federal judge has ruled that Delaware's Freedom of Information Act is unconstitutional because it denies nonresidents access to public records in the state, which is the legal home of many major companies.

Delaware is still the legal home of more large companies than any other state for many reasons, including a well-regarded judiciary, a highly developed case law and a judicial deference for the business judgments of executives.

Mr. Scheffer was the chief American negotiator in the establishment of the International Criminal Court, which will give a legal home for prosecution of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

In New York, attorney Jim Maloney has brought a federal constitutional challenge to the statutes that criminalize simple in-home possession of nunchaku for peaceful use in martial-arts practice or legal home defense.

Its headquarters are in Exeter, N.H., but it switched its legal home to Bermuda when it merged with ADT, the security alarm company it bought in July 1997.

We therefore propose that a distinct light-handed regime be established which can accommodate the characteristics of hedge funds – and also, incidentally, other alternative investment vehicles which currently lack a suitable legal home at an EU level.

In Pakistan, Usman Ali is trying to rebuild his life after being deported from Florida, his legal home of more than a decade, for improperly filling out a voter-registration card while renewing his driver's license.

'Approves of the Squats' Frank Morales, who said he was a squatter in the area for 10 years before finding a legal home last year, said: "The neighborhood approves of the squats, except for the negative publicity."

As one example of the many difficulties the companies faced in getting regulators to approve the deal, they had to agree to make New York the new company's legal home, but also had to agree to give Connecticut most of its jobs.

McKeeva Bush, prime minister of the legal home to thousands of hedge funds from around the world, has set up an Immigration Review Team to persuade firms to stay in spite of President Obama's pledge to crackdown on offshore tax havens.

After Karaha, whose legal home is in the Cayman Islands, tried and failed to persuade the Indonesian government to revive the project, it sought compensation for the money it had already invested - more than $100 million, it claimed - and for lost profits.