California Corporate & Securities Law

On Monday, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it had adopted amendments "to improve municipal securities disclosure".  Specifically, the SEC amended Exchange Act Rule 15c2-12 which requires brokers, dealers, and municipal...

I have written several posts about a bill, SB 826, now pending in the California legislature that would impose fines on publicly held corporations that fail to meet prescribed gender quotas.  See California Bill Would Mandate Gender Quotas For...

Last Friday, President Trump tweeted that he has asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to study stopping quarterly reporting and going to a six-month reporting system.  A few years back, I proposed a more free market approach:

Last week, I devoted several posts to the California Supreme Court's decision in  De La Torre v. Cashcall Inc., 2018 Cal. LEXIS 5749.  In that opinion, the Court was responding to a question certified to it by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.  De La...

Not quite three years ago, I penned the following lines:

Followers of California legislation will note that many bills are now in either the "suspense file" of the Appropriations Committees of the Senate and the Assembly. These two committees have jurisdiction over fiscal bills. A bill with a significant...

For U.S. Supreme Court followers, a hot topic is whether the Court will continue to apply "Chevron deference".  Under Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, 467 U.S. 837 (1984), a court will uphold an agency's interpretation of an...

Section 22303 of the California Financial Code establishes the maximum interest rates applicable to loans less than $2,500.  The preceding section incorporates by reference the general Civil Code provision about contract unconscionability, Section...

The California legislature meets annually but but the legislative session is biennial.  Nevada's legislature in contrast meets every other year.  See Happy New Biennium! The second year of California's current session comes to a close at the end of...