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LA Superior Court Judge Rules Against California Gender-Based Corporate Board Quota Law

May 16, 2022 4:04 pm

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Maureen Duffy-Lewis ruled late last week that a California law that required a minimum number of women to be on corporate boards in California was unconstitutional, as it violated the right o equal treatment. The...

Judge Tosses Out California Law Mandating Diversity Quotas on Boards

April 4, 2022 9:19 amApril 5, 2022 3:50 pm

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Terry Green tossed out California’s corporate diversity law to require publicly held corporations based in the state to include racial minorities and members of the LGBTQ community on their executive boards, ruling it “unconstitutional.” The...

New Lawsuit Challenges Constitutionality Of Recall Election, Filed In Federal Court

August 17, 2021 11:17 amAugust 18, 2021 3:59 pm

A new lawsuit spurred by a New York Times op-ed piece by two UC Berkeley professors that challenges the legality of the 2021 California Governor recall election was filed in a U.S. District Court over the weekend. Last week, UC...

Youth Athletes Sue Governor Newsom and Orange County Over Indoor Youth Sports Ban

March 2, 2021 2:48 pmMarch 4, 2021 11:42 am

On Monday, a group of five high school athletes in Orange County filed a lawsuit against Governor Gavin Newsom and other entities, fighting his statewide COVID-19 pandemic ban on youth sports. In Nelson, et. al V. County of Orange, et....

Judicial Watch Files Lawsuit To Halt California’s Mandatory Board Diversity Law

October 6, 2020 3:17 pmOctober 7, 2020 8:45 am

On Monday, the legal group Judicial Watch announced that they filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court to halt a new state law to require a mandatory number of racial minorities on company boards. The Judicial Watch lawsuit against...

California Supreme Court Rejects OC Education Board, Private School Reopening Lawsuits

September 10, 2020 6:08 pm

On Wednesday, the California Supreme Court rejected lawsuits by the Orange County Board of Education and a coalition of private schools to overturn Governor Gavin Newsom’s emergency order to limit in-school learning. California Supreme Court Rejects two lawsuits The ruling...

Parents, Center For American Liberty Sue Gov. Newsom, California Over School Reopening Plans

July 23, 2020 6:32 am

On Wednesday, nine California parents and the civil liberties group Center for American Liberty sued Governor Gavin Newsom and the state of California over a plan unveiled by Newsom last Friday to close most in-person schooling in California for the...