California Corporate & Securities Law

I have devoted several posts over the years to California's Unincorporated Association Law.  See Thinking About Joining A Club? You May Want To Consider These Corporations Code Provisions First, Is Your Club A Legal Entity?, Is A Biker Gang A...

Not too long ago, I wrote about a bill that is currently pending in the Nevada legislature, AB 158.  This bill wouldauthorize Nevada courts toexercise general personal jurisdiction over entities onthe sole basis that the entity:

Earlier this month, Nevada Assemblymember Erica Roth introduced a bill, A.B. 158, to authorize Nevada courts to exercise general personal jurisdiction over entities on the sole basis that the entity:

Professor Eugene Volokh recently highlighted a decision by U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan taking a plaintiff to task for inadequately pleading diversity jurisdiction when the defendant is a limited liability company. According to Judge Cogan an...

I play the five string banjo, but not well at all.  Steve Martin plays the banjo very well and he also writes songs for the banjo.  One of those songs, Daddy Played The Banjo, ends with these lines:

Diversity jurisdiction of the federal courts requires complete diversity of citizenship. 28 U.S.C. § 1332. If a party is a corporation, then it becomes necessary to determine the location of the corporation's citizenship. In a recent decision,...

The United States federal courts are courts of limited jurisdiction.  Therefore, it is not always possible to make a "federal case" out of claim, even when issues of federal law may be involved. 

Corporations do not enjoy all the rights of citizenship, but in some cases a corporation's citizenship can be important.  For example, the diversity jurisdiction of the federal courts depends upon establishing two facts.  First, that the amount in...