News & Analysis as of

Fourteenth Amendment Corporate Governance

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,...

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

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

Corporate Governance: 2023 Midyear Review

The public and private focus on corporate governance continued apace in the first half of 2023. In recent months, there were notable developments in jurisprudence potentially impacting corporate diversity initiatives and in...more

Snell & Wilmer

Board Diversity Initiatives Falter in the Courts but Investor Interest Is Likely to Remain Strong

Snell & Wilmer on

Last year, Superior Courts in Los Angeles County invalidated two California statutes requiring specific diversity mandates for California public company boards (Senate Bill 826 “SB 826” and Assembly Bill 979 “AB 979”). The...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Left Coast Appeals

This Week at the Ninth: Injured Discriminators and Rails-to-Trails

This week, the Ninth Circuit addresses whether a corporate shareholder has standing to challenge a statute allegedly requiring the corporation to discriminate, and considers the interaction between the 1922 Abandoned Railroad...more

Jones Day

California Mandates Representation of Underrepresented Communities on Boards of Public Corporations

Jones Day on

The Situation: California's governor recently signed into effect a new law requiring public corporations whose principal executive offices are located in California to have a certain minimum number of individuals from...more

Allen Matkins

California Board Gender Quota Law Challenged In Federal Court

Allen Matkins on

Cydney Posner at Cooley LLP wrote last week about a new challenge to California's Board Gender Quota law. The lawsuit, Creighton Meland v. Alex Padilla, Secretary of State of California, was reportedly filed in federal...more

6 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 1

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide