A few weeks ago, I purchased a copy of Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts by Justice Antonin Scalia and Bryan Garner. According to the cover, the authors "carefully and engagingly explain 57 valid canons of construction and dispel 13...
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In 2002, the Legislature enacted AB 55 creating the victims of corporate fraud fund. Since the fund was created, it has collected about $15 million and nearly 800 claims have been submitted. In a devastating article published last fall by the ...
Yesterday, Broc Romanek wrote this post about a new study from the Center for Political Accountability and the Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. This study focused on the political...
Last week, the Department of Corporations filed a civil complaint in the Los Angeles Superior Court that accuses several companies and individuals of, among other things, failing to qualify the offer and sale of operating agreements, bridge loans,...
Stephens Media, LLC is the publisher of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. In 2009, Stephens Media filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court against Citihealth, L.L.C. alleging a variety of trademark related claims. Citihealth failed to respond to the...
On Friday, Governor Brown signed SB 323 (Vargas) into law. It was chaptered by the Secretary of State the same day. Section 20 of the bill adds the California Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act (RULLCA) to the Corporations Code as a new...
Yesterday, I wrote about Judge Lucy Koh's decision in SriCom, Inc. v. eBisLogic, Inc., 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 131082 (N.D. Cal., Sept. 13, 2012) concerning the enforceability of a no-hire agreement. Judge Koh mentions an earlier ruling by Judge ...
California is known for its hostility to covenants not to compete. Legal antipathy to these kind of agreements didn't start here, however.
The California Constitution does not explicitly grant anyone or anything the right to bear arms. However, a recent determination by the Office of Administrative Law has apparently given rise to the misconception that it has decided that corporations...
