Nonprofit Basics: How To Wind up a California Charity
Last summer, bankers and the lawyers who advise them breathed a collective sigh of relief when the Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a U.S. District Court's opinion that notes in a bank syndicated loan were not...more
Part 5 of the California Corporate Securities Law of 1968 sets forth a number of fraudulent and prohibited practices. One of these practices is to "to offer or sell a security in this state, or to buy or offer to buy a...more
Section 25401 of the California Corporations Code declares generally declares unlawful to make false statements of a material fact or or omit material facts when buying or selling a security. It is therefore similar to Rule...more
In 2011, I posed the following question: Is Privity Required Or Not Required Under Section 25500? Section 25500 of the California Corporations Code provides the remedy for violations of Section 25400 which declares unlawful...more
In Crest v. Padilla, No. 20STCV37513 (Cal. Super. Apr. 1, 2022), the Superior Court of California for the County of Los Angeles (Green, J.) declared that Section 301.4 of the California Corporations Code is unconstitutional...more
Federal Reserve Hints at Government-Backed Cryptocurrency; Third Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Securities Fraud Class Action Against Shutterfly Inc. Regarding Allegedly Misleading Financial Projections; Ninth Circuit Holds...more
Section 25400(d) of the California Corporations Code declares it is unlawful for any person, directly or indirectly, in this state...more
Assembly Member Al Muratsuchi recently introduced a bill, AB 2069, that would grant courts the discretion to award treble damages for violations of the qualification requirements of the Corporate Securities Law of...more
In Drulias v. 1st Century Bancshares, Inc., No. H045049, 2018 WL 6735137 (Cal. App. Dec. 21, 2018), the California Court of Appeal, Sixth Appellate District, affirmed an order staying a stockholder lawsuit brought in the...more
On August 10, 2018, United States District Judge Phyllis J. Hamilton of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California denied a motion to remand to state court a putative securities class action...more
A recent ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Cynthia Bashant reminds us that when it comes to securities fraud claims, a plaintiff is generally required to have either bought or sold a security. Melcher v. Fried, 2018 U.S....more
On several occasions, I have written about whether scienter is required under Corporations Code Section 25401. That question surfaced again last week in Judge Gonzolo P. Curiel’s ruling on the defendants’ motion to dismiss...more