Nonprofit Basics: Overview of Nonprofit Charitable Organization Types: Corporation, LLC, Trust, Association and Fiscal Sponsorship
Yeong Wo is an unincorporated association that serves as an umbrella group for a dozen constituent organizations, called “tangs.” In Hee Shen Cemetery & Benevolent Assoc. v. Yeong Wo Assoc., 2024 WL 938928 (March 5, 2024),...more
The Church of the Celestial Heart is a California nonprofit religious corporation seeks to import and use a sacramental tea. It so happens that this tea, which is also called Daime or ayahuasca, carries trace amounts of a...more
Yesterday's post focused on a California bill, AB 1229 (Haney), that would create a new Decentralized Nonprofit Association Law. Today's post drills down on what I see as fundamental flaw in the bill. In addition to...more
As discussed in this recent post, Judge Larry Alan Burns recently ruled that the plaintiffs in class action had adequately pled that a distributed autonomous organization (DAO) was a partnership under California law. Sarcuni...more
Mongol Nation is an unincorporated association whose members include the official, or "full-patch," members of the gang. The U.S. government has been prosecuting the gang since at least 2008 and has obtained convictions of...more
Gertrude Stein is famously quoted as having written, "There is no there there". Although Ms. Stein intended a different meaning to the expression, the same statement might be used to describe a "decentralized autonomous...more
Often a club or other will begin informally without formal incorporation. In California, such an unincorporated club or group, whether organized for profit or not, is classified as an "unincorporated association" and it...more
Cal. Serv. Emples. Health & Welfare Trust Fund v. Greenbox Servs. LLC, 2021 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 93477 involved a plaintiff's attempt to serve a limited liability company. After thrice failing to serve personally the LLC's...more
In 2004, the California legislature enacted an unincorporated associations law as part of the Corporations Code. Cal. Stats. 2004, ch. 178 (SB 1746). At the time, the law governing unincorporated associations consisted of...more
Nine years ago, I wrote about various provisions of the California Corporations Code concerning unincorporated associations. See Thinking About Joining A Club? You May Want To Consider These Corporations Code Provisions...more