California Corporate & Securities Law

In 2020, the legislature enacted the California Consumer Financial Protection Law.  The CCFPL significantly expanded the regulatory authority of the the Department of Financial Protection & Innovation by granting it the power to enforce any...

In California, it seems that everything must be registered and reported to the state.  A spot bill, SB 789 (Menjivar) was recently amended to require that individuals and entities owning commercial property in the state to register with the...

Earlier this week, President Donald Trump remarked that he is "thinking in terms of 25%" tariffs on goods imported from Mexico and Canada". A tariff is a tax levied upon imported goods. When goods enter the United States, they are classified and...

The Nevada legislature is currently considering a bill, SB 201, that would restrict, with certain exceptions, an association or unit’s owner who rents or leases his or her unit from prohibiting a unit’s owner or occupant of a unit from engaging in...

I have seen the line "Independence now, independence forever!" attributed to Daniel Webster but I have been unable to locate the line in any of the texts cited as the source.  I have also seen a longer quotation attributed to John Adams:

In California's continuing war on businesses, a legislator recently introduced a bill to enact the "Polluters Pay Climate Superfund Act of 2025", AB 1243 (Addis). This bill would establish the a program to be administered by the California...

On Monday, Delaware State Senator Bryan Townsend introduced Senate Bill 21 which would, among other things, statutorily define "controlling stockholder" and substantially change the rules governing the "cleansing" of controlling stockholder...

Recently, UCLA Professor Stephen Bainbridge posted this critique of California's climate disclosure laws - SB 253 and SB 261.  Readers of this blog will recall that SB 253 requires "reporting entities" to disclose Scope 1, 2 & 3 greenhouse gas...