California Corporate & Securities Law

Although Rome before Augustus is often described as a republic, it was in many respects ruled by the wealthy who jealously guarded their power.  So it was with Rome's comitia centuriata.  In theory, this was an assembly of the peoplethat elected the...

In Asadi v. G.E. Energy United States, L.L.C., 720 F.3d 620 (5th Cir. 2013), the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that an employee who reported a suspected Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violation internally but not to the Securities and Exchange...

Just this week, Commissioner Daniel M. Gallagher and former Commissioner Joseph A. Grundfest issued a draft of a paper that takes on the Harvard Shareholder Rights Project. The Harvard SRP describes itself as "a clinical program operating at Harvard...

In November, the voters of Nevada approved Question 1 which amended Article 6 of the Nevada Constitution to create an intermediate Court of Appeals. California's intermediate court is styled the Court of Appeal (no "s"). Initially, the Nevada Court...

Three years ago, California Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. issued Executive Order B-10-11.  Among other things, Governor Brown ordered:

This post yesterday by Broc Romanek alerted me to Judge Leonard P. Stark's recent opinion in Trinity Wall Street v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 165431 (D. Del. Nov. 26, 2014). The case involved Wal-Mart's decision to exclude a...

I've always been fascinated by the fact that the ancient Romans chose to explain their origins with tales of defeat, invasion, fratricide, communal rape and assassination. The city, which eventually occupied seven hills along the Tiber, started out...

Last March, I wrote about a decision of a panel of the Nevada Supreme Court in In re Cay Clubs, 130 Nev. Adv. 14 (2014).  The defendants thereafter sought reconsideration by the Supreme Court sitting en banc. Yesterday, the Supreme Court issued its...

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Perez v. Mortgage Bankers Ass'n et al.  The case, if decided against the Department of Labor (Thomas E. Perez is the Secretary of Labor), will have a significant impact on all federal...