California Corporate & Securities Law

In Archon v. Eight Jud. Dist. Ct., 133 Nev. Adv. Op. 101 (2017), the Nevada Supreme Court provides a concise explanation of the uses of mandamus and administrative mandamus as escape hatches from the final judgment rule. The background of the case...

Consider the following excerpts from recent filings made with the Securities and Exchange Commission:

A couple of years ago, I taught Administrative Law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. One of the many theories that we covered was the idea of "regulatory capture". This is a "term coined by public choice economists to indicate...

Most, but not all, publicly traded companies are, or soon will be, drafting the disclosures required by Section 953(b) of the Dodd Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. That statute requires the Securities and Exchange Commission to...

Last week, I wrote about a recent Court of Appeal decision allowing for the possibility that a sale of shares at a sheriff's sale could amount to conversion.  Duke v. Superior Court, 2017 Cal. App. LEXIS 1116. A fundamental principle underlying the...

One might expect that a sheriff's sale of stock pursuant to a writ of execution could not result in a viable claim for conversion by a judgment debtor.  A California Court of Appeal, however, has ruled that it could.

An entire division of California's Business & Professions Code is devoted to a single plant genus - Cannabis. The official name of the division is the "Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act" aka the MAUCRSA. Bus. & Prof. Code §...

California Secretary of State Alex Padilla wants to help entrepreneurs in California by launching a new online business portal.  According to Secretary of State's press release, the new portal, coined "Cannabizfile", provides useful information about...

I don't hear many securities lawyers talking about "ecosystems". Indeed, I think of the word as being more the province of environmental lawyers. The word itself is an amalgamation of two Greek words - οἶκος, meaning house, and σύστημα, meaning a...