California Corporate & Securities Law

This spring, John Jenkins reported that the Securities and Exchange Commission staff now declines to declare effective a registration statement if the issuer does not provide a physical address on the cover page of its registration statement in...

An individual formed a nonprofit public benefit corporation, Xi'an Jiaotung University Alumni Association of Norther California by filing articles of incorporation with the California Secretary of State.  Thereafter, he filed statement of information...

Five years ago, I noted that the Nevada Supreme Court had adopted New York's more deferential approach for assessing special litigation qualifications in Auerbach v. Bennett,393 N.E.2d 994 (N.Y. 1979) over that of the Delaware Supreme Court in ...

The City of Oakland was not happy with the decision of the Oakland Raiders football team to move to Las Vegas, Nevada and it was filed a lawsuit alleging that it was a third party beneficiary of the league's relocation policies. In an opinion...

In January, 1832, William Learned Marcy rose in the United States Senate to defend Secretary of State Martin Van Buren from criticism by Henry Clay. Clay's attack on Van Buren is not remembered, but the words of Senator Marcy's defense are still...

The California Department of Financial Protection & Innovation recently issued is 2021 Annual Report of Operation of Finance Lenders, Brokers, and PACE Administrators Licensed Under the California Financing Law. The DFPI reports a nearly 12%...

"I see nothing! I hear nothing! I know nothing!"

The word "church" has an interesting ancestry.  It most likely began as a Germanic word that entered the Greek language and then moved on to English.  The Greek word, κυριακός, means for or of an owner, master or lord (κύριος means master or lord, as...

"Eppure non si muove"