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The recent case of Schron v. Troutman Saunders LLP, from the New York Court of Appeals, New York’s highest court, shows the importance of not including unnecessary verbiage in a contract just because it’s traditional. In this case, an LLC…
Read MoreIn a recent post on his blog, Keith Bishop asks the question, Are charter indemnification provisions contracts? Many companies include provisions in their articles and bylaws that mandate indemnification of directors and officers, and they often say that they are…
Read MoreIn Riverisland Cold Storage, Inc. v. Fresno-Madera Production Credit Association (January 14, 2013), the California Supreme Court overruled a precedent of over 75 years’ standing (Bank of America etc. Assn. v. Pendergrass (1935) 4 Cal.2d 258) and held that a…
Read MoreIn Robinson v. SSW, Inc. (2012), a California court applied Nebraska law to determine the liability of a dissolved Nebraska corporation for injuries the corporation allegedly caused to a California resident. Douglas G. Robinson died in November 2005 from mesothelioma, a…
Read MoreIn Hawran v. Hixson (2012), the court allowed a CFO who had resigned from a public company to sue the company and certain directors because the company’s press release implied that he had engaged in misconduct. Sequenom was a publicly…
Read MoreS.B. 323, the Revised Uniform Limited Liability Act, has been signed by Governor Brown. It will be effective January 1, 2014.
Read MoreIn Montgomery Sansome v. Rezai (March 28, 2012) 204 Cal. App. 4th 786, the court held that a construction contractor’s designation of an entity as a “general partnership” in a fictitious business name statement when the contractor was licensed as…
Read MoreIn Fluor Corp. v. Superior Court (2012), the court held that an insurance policy’s clause requiring the insurer’s consent to an assignment of rights under the policy was valid. Fluor Corporation (here called Fluor-1) was formed in 1924 Fluor-2 was…
Read MoreIn Fillpoint, LLC v. Maas (2012), a court struck down a covenant not to compete that would take effect only upon termination of employment where the covenant was in addition to a covenant not to compete that was given in…
Read MoreIn Villari v. Mozilo (2012) 208 Cal. App. 4th 1470, the court held that under Delaware law a shareholder who was a plaintiff in a shareholder derivative action lost standing to maintain that action once a merger resulted in the…
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