Professor Joshua Fershee has been fighting the good fight on limited liability company nomenclature, but I fear that he is losing. For example, the following appeared in a recent U.S. Magistrate's ruling denying a plaintiff's application to serve a...
Yesterday's post concerned a recent federal district court decision applying the corporate alter ego doctrine to a Nevada limited liability company. Bustos v. Dennis, 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 45764. An update to this post noted that although Judge...
Yesterday's post concerned U.S. District Court Judge Cynthia Ann Bashant's recent ruling that a plaintiff had failed to plead adequately the existence of a security. D.R. Mason Constr. Co. v. GBOD, LLC, 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 41236. Professor Fershee...
As Professor Joshua Fershee has often noted, many judges fail to distinguish between corporations and limited liability companies. See, e.g., LLCs Are Not Corporations. Be Vigilant. Respect the Entity. Therefore, it is nice to see that some judges...
Marlene Dietrich reportedly said "When you're dead, you're dead, thats it." At one time, that was true of limited liability companies formed under California's Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act.
Professor Douglas K. Moll points out a small, but significant, difference between the duty of loyalty owed by a partner under California's Uniform Partnership Act of 1994 and the duty of loyalty owed by a member or manager under California's Revised...
U.S. District Court Judge Tena Campbell's ruling in Strong v. Cochran, 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 170073, is a reminder that sometimes what you do matters more than what you say. The case involved claims by the liquidating trustee for a failed real...
Last June, the California Secretary of State's office announced bizfile California, which it described as "a new online portal to help businesses file, search, and order business records quickly and conveniently from one webpage". Bizfile California...
