Under California's former general partnership law, a partner was a "coowner with the other partners of specific partnership property holding as a tenant in partnership." Former Cal. Corp. Code § 15025(1). Whether this was actually the case was ...
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Yesterday, Governor Gavin Newsom has announced the appointment of Clothilde “Cloey” Hewlett to serve as California's next Commissioner of the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation. Ms. Hewlett has been serving as the executive director...
The anomalously named California Uniform Partnership Act of 1994 specifies when a partner in a general partnership "dissociates". Cal. Corp. Code § 16601. Upon dissociation, a general partner loses the right to participate in the management and...
California Superior Court Judge Maureen Duffy-Lewis issued her ruling yesterday on the parties' respective motions for summary judgment in Crest v. Padilla (Cal. Super. Ct. Case No. 19STCV27561). In this case, the plaintiffs are seeking a judgment...
The California Uniform Partnership Act of 1994 permits, but does not require, a general partnership to file a statement of partnership authority with the California Secretary of State's Office. Cal. Corp. Code § 16303. Among other things, the...
Goldfield, Nevada exploded into Nevada's largest city in the first decade of the Twentieth Century. It supported two stock exchanges - the Goldfield Mining Stock Exchange (which began in the Northern Saloon) and the Goldfield Stock and Exchange...
As discussed in this post, the California General Corporation Law defines and uses the term "common shares" rather than "common stock". Common shares are shares that have no preference over other shares with respect to distribution of assets on...
Readers may recall that there are at least two challenges to California's female director quota mandate (aka SB 826). In June, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals resurrected one suit by holding that the challenger has standing. Meland v. Weber, 2 F....
In this post, Professor Stephen Bainbridge takes the Securities and Exchange Commission to task for investigating Activision's employment practices:
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