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California State Law Requiring Diversity on Company Boards Found Unconstitutional

June 6, 2022

On May 13, 2022, in Crest, et. al. v. Padilla, the Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Los Angeles held that S.B. 826, later codified as §301.3 of the California Corporations Code, violated the equal protection clause of the California constitution on its face. This decision comes on the heels of an April 2022 ruling in which §301.4, a similar law, was also found unconstitutional on equal protection grounds.

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