Can An Employer Require Employees To Invest In The Business?

Employee stock bonus, stock purchase, and stock option plans are extremely common. Most employees and prospective employees are undoubtedly happy to receive these types of equity compensation awards, but can an employer require an employee to invest...

Can Common Interest Communities Ban Religious Displays On Doors And Doorframes?

The Nevada legislature is currently considering a bill, SB 201, that would restrict, with certain exceptions, an association or unit’s owner who rents or leases his or her unit from prohibiting a unit’s owner or occupant of a unit from engaging in...

SEC Abandons Defense Of Brobdingnagian Climate Change Disclosure Rule

Three years ago, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued a nearly 500 page rule proposal that would require registrants to provide certain climate-related information in their registration statements and annual reports. At the time, I argued....

Is Registration As A Foreign Corporation A Form Of Compelled Consent?

Not too long ago, I wrote about a bill that is currently pending in the Nevada legislature, AB 158.  This bill wouldauthorize Nevada courts toexercise general personal jurisdiction over entities onthe sole basis that the entity:

FinCen Issues A Huge Reprieve For Domestic Reporting Companies

O frabjous day!  the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) late last Friday issued an interim final rule that removes the requirement for U.S. companies and U.S. persons to report beneficial ownership information (BOI) to FinCEN under the...

What Vice Chancellor Strine Got Wrong In Massey Energy Co.

Vice Chancellor Leo Strine famously wrote that "Delaware law does not charter law breakers".  In re Massey Energy Co., 2011 WL 2176479, at *20 (Del. Ch. May 31, 2011).  Professor William J. Moon picks up on this theme in a forthcoming essay, Havens...

Will Ling Chi Kill The Corporate Transparency Act?

Ling Chi was a slow and torturous method of execution practiced in Imperial China.  Better known in English as "death by a thousand cuts", ling chi took a terribly long time to kill the condemned prisoner.

California - Not Independent Now And Most Likely Not Independent Ever

I have seen the line "Independence now, independence forever!" attributed to Daniel Webster but I have been unable to locate the line in any of the texts cited as the source.  I have also seen a longer quotation attributed to John Adams:

Court: Investment Adviser Has No Duty To Warn Non-Clients

According to the Court of Appeal:

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