California Corporate & Securities Law

Yesterday, the United States Supreme Court heard oral argument in Facebook, Inc. v. Amalgamated Bank (S. Ct. Case No. 22-15077).  As presented by Facebook (now known as Meta Platforms, Inc.), the question for the court is as follows:

Yesterday, the California Department of Financial Protection & Innovation warned investors that an "entity calling itself “Hartman Cain & Associates,” which represents itself as a law firm based in California, and operates the website...

"But love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit"

Semper Midas Fund, Ltd was formed for to invest primarily in mortgage-related instruments. Five months after investing over $300,000 in the fund, the Alan Kalin was told that that the fund had lost over 50% of its value. Mr. Kalin filed a lawsuit in...

Goldfield, Nevada exploded into Nevada's largest city in the first decade of the Twentieth Century.  It supported two stock exchanges - the Goldfield Mining Stock Exchange (which began in the Northern Saloon) and the Goldfield Stock and Exchange...

Many law firms will undoubtedly publish alerts on yesterday's decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Pirani v. Slack Techs., 2021 U.S. App. LEXIS 28319. The court held that issue arose from the New York Stock Exchange's rule allowing...

Section 25400(d) of the California Corporations Code declares it is unlawful for any person, directly or indirectly, in this state:

In March, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced its first securities enforcement action involving the "dark web".  The SEC's complaint describes the "dark web" as referring to "a subset of the deep web that is intentionally hidden,...

It seems that there are now podcasts for every taste and interest.  Earlier this month, the North American Securities Administrators Association announced the introduction of Real Life Regulators a podcast series that brings "true crime stories...