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The Briefing: IP Rights and the “Public Good” Exemption to California’s Anti-SLAPP Law: An Update
Delaware practitioners and legal scholars are digesting the implications of SB 313 which adds a new Section 122(18) to the Delaware General Corporation. According to the bill's synopsis, this new provision...more
My last several posts have discussed the current debate on the phenomenon referred to as "DExit", which refers to Delaware corporations that choose to reincorporate in other states. In a recent article, Professor Bainbridge...more
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board instituted an inter partes review over patent owner’s objections that the petition did not timely identify all real parties-in-interest (RPI) and was filed by a phantom legal entity after...more
California's Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act provides "The law of the state . . . under which a foreign limited liability company is formed governs all of the following: The organization of the limited liability...more
In recent months, a conversation has emerged as to whether Delaware should remain the favored state of incorporation for business entities. Indeed, many of our clients have asked us whether they should remain in Delaware or...more
In this issue of Employment Flash: the new DOL rule on independent contractors, SCOTUS’s unanimous Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower ruling, plus labor law developments in California, Delaware, D.C., New York, the EU, Germany and...more
In February of this year, California Assembly Member Jesse Gabriel introduced a bill making certain technical, nonsubstantive changes to a provision of the Penal Code concerning the removal of prison inmates for court...more
The California General Corporation Law expectedly grants inspection rights to shareholders and directors of California corporations. Unexpectedly (at least to practitioners outside California), the GCL extends those rights...more
One difficulty of answering the question of whether a general counsel is a corporate officer is that the California General Corporation Law does not define "officer". Corporations Code Section 312(a) requires a corporation...more
Sunder Energy, LLC recently sought to enforce a non-compete agreement against its former head of sales in the Delaware Court of Chancery. Sunder Energy, LLC v. Jackson, 2023 WL 8166517. Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster...more
Disputes regarding ownership interests often arise in the context of closely held corporations, particularly when directors, officers, or majority shareholders sell or acquire ownership interests in the company. These...more
Welcome to EO Radio Show – Your Nonprofit Legal Resource. This is the first in a series of quick tip episodes, starting with the details of state registration of nonprofit corporations. With the help of our paralegal, Joe...more
Since its enactment in 2014, Section 204 of the Delaware General Corporation Law (DGCL) has provided direct mechanisms for a corporation's board of directors and stockholders to ratify defective corporate acts. Other states,...more
Diversity jurisdiction of the federal courts requires complete diversity of citizenship. 28 U.S.C. § 1332. If a party is a corporation, then it becomes necessary to determine the location of the corporation's citizenship. ...more
In Tola v. Bryant, No. 16150, 2022 Cal. App. LEXIS 241 (Cal. App. Mar. 24, 2022), the First Appellate District of the California Court of Appeal applied Delaware’s new formulation of the test for determining whether a...more
Yesterday's post discussed the Court of Appeal's holding in Ramirez v. Gilead Sciences, Inc., 2021 Cal. App. LEXIS 558, that a beneficial owner has no right to inspect corporate records under California Corporations Code...more
Corporations Code Section 1601(a) unambiguously bestows on shareholders the right to inspect the accounting books, records, and minutes of proceedings of the shareholders and the board and committees of the board of any...more
What happens when a fundamental policy collides with an unwaivable right? At bottom, that was the question before Vice Chancellor Paul A. Fioravanti, Jr. in Swipe Acquisition Corp. v. Krauss, 2021 Del. Ch. LEXIS 14. In...more
Recently, I came across a proxy statement filed a California corporation seeking shareholder approval to reincorporate in Delaware. In the midst of a lengthy disquisition on the pros and cons of reincorporation, the issuer...more
To help potential litigants evaluate how various executive orders may impact their filing deadlines, we examine executive orders in New York, and other select states, tolling the statute of limitations. This article also...more