California, like Delaware and other states, authorizes a short-form merger procedure.  Essentially, this involves a merger of a subsidiary into its parent or vice versa.  Under California's statute, the parent corporation must own all of the...

On April 18, 2019, the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board will consider an update to the regulations governing nighttime agriculture operations at its monthly meeting. In 2013, the Division of...

New York City employers will need to reconsider their drug testing policies. On April 9, 2019, the City Council passed a ...

On May 8, 2019, the California Supreme Court will hear oral argument regarding an important issue involving class certification in California state courts: how to apply the requirement of ascertainability in the class...

As we previously reported, last summer Massachusetts legislators...

In Inter-Marketing Group USA, Inc. v. Armstrong, the Delaware Court of Chancery dismissed a derivative suit brought on behalf of a Delaware limited partnership because the plaintiff failed to make demand or show that demand was futile....

In the wake of the most destructive wildfire season in California history, California’s Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Occupational Safety and Health (“DOSH”), has issued a ...

This Wednesday April 24th, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative will host a conference titled “...

In a decision as notable for its criticisms of the trial court judge as its contributions to Delaware appraisal jurisprudence, the Delaware Supreme Court in ...

The Southern District of New York remanded an arbitration award back to the arbitrator for clarification, as the parties had agreed to a “reasoned” award, and the arbitrator exceeded his authority in issuing an award that did not meet the...

The Mississippi Gaming Commission held its regular monthly meeting on Thursday, April 18, 2019, at 9:00 a.m. at the Jackson offices of the Mississippi Gaming Commission. Executive Director Allen Godfrey, Chairman Al Hopkins, and Commissioners...

Thousands of individuals have filed suit against the Monsanto Company, the manufacturer of the popular weed killer Roundup, alleging that the active ingredient in Roundup causes cancer and that Monsanto has long known about, and covered up, that...

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida recently held that a defendant’s pre-suit proffer of a settlement check and a letter promising not to violate the TCPA in the future did not moot the plaintiff’s claims because...

On March 27, 2019, the initial Case Management Conference for the Valsartan MDL was held in the District of New Jersey before the Honorable Robert B. Kugler. At the time that the cases were consolidated before Judge Kugler, for pretrial purposes...

Last month, I noted the introduction of a bill, SB 304, in the Nevada legislature that would...

As part of its business, Equifax reports publicly available civil judgment and tax lien information about consumers.  However, in multiple class action lawsuits filed across the United States, plaintiff-consumers alleged that while Equifax...

In David A. Hoeller v. Tempur Sealy International, Inc., C.A. No. 2018-0336-JRS (Del. Ch. February 12, 2019), the Delaware Court of Chancery denied a shareholder’s request to inspect the Company’s books and records, because he failed to...