Last month, California State Senator Monique Limón introduced a bill, SB 1168, that would endow the California Secretary of State with the power to cancel the articles of a domestic corporation or the filing of a statement and designation by a...
Last year, I commented on the likely unconstitutionality of two California laws compelling forced speech:
Article IV, Section 9 of the California Constitution provides "A statute shall embrace but one subject, which shall be expressed in its title". This rather simple notion, absent from the United States Constitution, dates back over two millenia to...
On January 4, 2024, the California legislature will reconvene for the second year of its current biennium. Joint Rule 51(a)(4). January opens the new year with some important legislative deadlines.
It is that time of year when both the professional and general press feature stories about new laws that will be taking effect. As I survey the California legislature's handiwork in 2023, I have identified the following themes:
Until President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national day of thanksgiving during the Civil War, thanksgiving holidays were a matter of state and local concern. California mentions Thanksgiving Day in 18 separate statutes, including those in the Code...
Beginning in January, "covered entities" will be prohibited from charging specified fees in connection with a commercial financing transaction with a "small business" or "small business" owner. Cal. Stat. ch. 881 (SB 666). Although relatively brief,...
More than a decade ago, I remarked on the ahistoricity of California's adoption of English common law despite the fact that it had never been a colony of England.* Yesterday, the California Court of Appeal applied English common law to decide a...