If California's Pork Law Falls, Will Section 2115 Be Next?

This week, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in National Pork Producers Council v. Ross (Docket No. 21-468). The case involves a challenge to 2018 proposition that, among other things, forbids the sale of "any uncooked cut of pork" in...

Section 2115's Peculiar Consolidation Rule

Section 2115 of the California Corporations Code famously purports to impose numerous provisions of the General Corporation Law on foreign corporations if two tests are met. One of these tests, the so-called "business test", requires that the...

How California's Clean Energy Fund Has Made Applying California's Pseudo-Foreign Corporation Law More Difficult

In 2012, the voters of California approved Proposition 39 which established a Clean Energy Fund for the purpose of "funding projects that create jobs in California improving energy efficiency and expanding clean energy generation." In order to raise...

How To Determine Whether A Foreign Corporation Is A "Pseudo-Foreign" Corporation

California famously purports to impose numerous provisions of its General Corporation Law on corporations formed in other states when two tests are met. Cal. Corp. Code § 2115. The first of these tests is determined by averaging the corporation's...

Sciabacucchi and Gender Quotas Engender Dubiety Over Internal Affairs

Professor Ann Lipton at Tulane University Law School has noted a slew of forthcoming papers concerning the internal affairs doctrine in light of Vice Chancellor Laster's holding in Sciabacucchi v. Salzberg, 2018 Del. Ch. LEXIS 578, and California's...

Does Incorporation In Delaware Constitute "Abuse Of The Corporation"?

Until I happened upon a working paper by Professors Martin Gelter and Lécia Vicente, I had not encountered the notion of abusing a corporation merely by choosing where to incorporate it.  The authors describe abuse as follows:

Federal Court Blocks Shareholder Inspection Of Delaware Corporation's Records Pursuant To California Statute

United States District Court Judge Haywood S. Stirling, Jr. yesterday blocked a stockholder's attempt to use California's shareholder inspection statute to gain access to a corporation's "books and records and minutes of proceedings of the...

Why California's Gender Quota Bill Is More Likely To Be Unconstitutional Than California's Pseudo-Foreign Corporation Statute

In the waning hours of the current session, the California legislature passed a bill that will impose gender quotas on publicly held domestic or foreign corporations whose principal executive offices, according to the corporation’s SEC 10-K form,...

Can Pseudo-Foreign Corporations Exonerate Their Directors?

Corporations Code Section 2115 is not an easy read.  Fortunately, California Supreme Court Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye has provided a more digestible overview of the statute:

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