California Corporate & Securities Law

In yesterday's post, I posited that Delaware does and doesn't define "officer".   For the proposition that Delaware defines the term, I cited Delaware's deemed consent statute - 10 Del. Code § 3114.  That statute, however, only appears to furnish a...

In a recent feature published by the Washington Legal Foundation, UCLA Professor Stephen Bainbridge casts a jaundiced eye toward Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster's recent ruling in In re McDonald's Corp. Stockholder Deriv. Litig., C.A. No....

Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster's recently ruled that McDonald's Corporation's former Executive Vice President and Global ChiefPeople Officer, David Fairhurst, owed a duty of oversight comparable to the duty articulated by Chancellor Allen in In re...

In several blog posts, I have commented on the right to a jury trial under California law.  This may seem like an inapposite subject for a blog devoted to corporate and securities law issues.  Nonetheless, I have prognosticated that the right to a...