California Corporate & Securities Law

In 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted amendments to Regulation A and other rules and forms to implement Section 401 of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act. One significant enhancement to Regulation A was to permit...

Article 8, Section 3 of the Nevada Constitution provides:

Credit Unions got their start in Nineteenth Century Germany. In 1909, Roman Catholic textile workers opened the first credit union in the United States, St. Mary's Cooperative Credit Association (later, renamed La Caisse Populaire Ste.-Marie). At...

Suppose Mr. Henry owns all of the outstanding shares of a Virginia corporation that owns all of the issued and outstanding shares of a Massachusetts corporation that owns, among other things, real property in Los Angeles, California. Suppose further...

While prognosticators continue to place odds on whether the Financial CHOICE Act of 2017, H.R. 10, will be enacted, many commentators are claiming that it will "repeal" the Securities and Exchange Commission's pay ratio rule. Even if H.R. 10 is...

Yesterday's post concerned the U.S. Supreme Court's holding in Matal v. Tam, 2017 U.S. LEXIS 3872 (June 19, 2017) that the "disparagement clause" of the Lanham Act violates the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment. As far as most legal...

In Matal v. Tam, 2017 U.S. LEXIS 3872 (June 19, 2017), the U.S. Supreme Court found the "disparagement clause" of the Lanham Act violates the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment. The "disparagement clause" prohibits the registration of...

Recently, I wrote about the stealth with which the California legislature enacted AB 102, which it ironically named the Taxpayer Transparency and Fairness Act of 2017.  Having been birthed in opacity, AB 102 will operate with even less transparency.

California has codified the attorney work product doctrine in Section 2018.030 of the California Code of Civil Procedure. That statute establishes two categories of protected work product. Under subdivision (a), a "writing that reflects an...