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Texas Adopts Significant Pro-Business Corporate Law Reforms

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With a pair of bills signed by Texas Governor Greg Abbott on May 14, 2025, and May 20, 2025, Texas took a major step in positioning itself as the pro-business jurisdiction of choice for public and private companies. The...more

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Texas Adopts Law Permitting Limits on Shareholder Proposals

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On May 19, 2025, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill No. 1057 (SB 1057) into law....more

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If A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words, Should Bylaws Have Pictures?

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Nearly 13 years ago, I ruminated on the question of whether corporations are required to have bylaws.  As far as California is concerned, there is no requirement that a corporation in fact have bylaws, although virtually all...more

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What About Calexit?

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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

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California Legislator Proposes To Enhance Criminal Fines For California, But Not Delaware, Business Entities

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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

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Bill Would Vest Secretary Of State With Broad Powers To Cancel Business Entities

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Last month, California State Senator Monique Limón introduced a bill, SB 1168,  that would endow the California Secretary of State with the power to cancel the articles of a domestic corporation or the filing of a statement...more

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Why I Find This Case To Be So Confusing

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I recently came across Judge William Alsup's ruling in Carbon Crest, LLC v. Tencue Productions, LLC, 2022 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 66676.  However, the first two sentences of the ruling left me baffled...more

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