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SEC Reporting Update - December 2024

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Insider Trading Policies. As previously discussed in our Winter 2022-2023 Corporate Communicator, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) adopted final rules in December 2022 relating to insider trading policy...more

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DEI Under Scrutiny, Part XI: Fifth Circuit Reconsiders Nasdaq’s Board Diversity Rule

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit will likely weigh in soon on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) approval of Nasdaq’s board diversity rule that will require listed companies to disclose...more

Allen Matkins

Nevada Supreme Court Finds CEO's Statements To Shareholders, Directors And Officers May Be Protected Activity

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Nevada, like California, has enacted an anti-SLAPP law that is intended to protect citizens' First Amendment rights to petition the government for redress of grievances and to free speech by limiting the chilling effect of...more

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Fifth Circuit Panel Upholds Nasdaq Board Diversity Disclosure Rules

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A Fifth Circuit panel recently upheld Nasdaq’s diversity disclosure rules after petitioners challenged them under the First and Fourteenth Amendments and the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). Alliance For Fair Board...more

Cozen O'Connor

Court of Appeals Hears Oral Arguments in Case Challenging Nasdaq’s Board Diversity Rules

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On August 29, 2022, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments in a case against the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) seeking to invalidate Nasdaq’s board diversity rules which were initially proposed by...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Developments in Association Law 2019 – 2020

A review of key legal developments for nonprofit organizations at the federal and state levels in 2019 and 2020. Antitrust enforcement continues against nonprofits. Nonprofits have litigated in other areas, including...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Left Coast Appeals

This Week at The Ninth: Informational Injury and Union Dues

This week, we examine one Ninth Circuit decision exploring the extent to which the deprivation of information and statutorily-conferred powers can satisfy Article III’s injury-in-fact requirement, and a second declining to...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Top 10 Topics for Directors in 2020: Corporate Reputation

Anybody over the age of 40 can recall a time when news was delivered by television, radio and newspapers. Two things that each of those mediums have in common are a substantial capital investment and an existential desire for...more

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Hot Topics from the Community Association Institute's Law Seminar

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Each year, the Community Association Institute ("CAI") assembles the top community association attorneys from around the country to participate in its Community Association Law Seminar, an education and networking event that...more

Allen Matkins

LLC Has No First Amendment Right To Send Its Lawyer To Board Meetings

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Usually when someone invokes her right to counsel, she usually has in mind the Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution (or perhaps Article I, § 15 of the California Constitution). Thus, I was surprised to see a case in...more

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