Mar 20, 2024
Congress enacted the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) as part of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 to help law enforcement detect and deter illicit financial activities, such as money laundering and terrorist financing. Click...
Feb 1, 2024
During the 2023 legislative session, the State Legislature approved and the Governor signed into law a number of bills affecting landlord and tenants. Click here to read more.
Feb 1, 2024
California Senate Bill 439 represents a novel adaptation of the state’s anti-SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) statute, extending the scope of a law designed to protect First Amendment activity to a new area: legal challenges against...
Jan 17, 2024
AB 1528 clarifies that the tax exemption for housing authorities under Health and Safety Code section 34400 also applies to property held by certain housing authority-controlled nonprofit public benefit corporations. AB 1528 also provides for a refund of tax paid...
Aug 11, 2023
The California Court of Appeal, in a 97-page decision published on April 7, 2023, held that the City of Clovis’ housing element did not substantially comply with state law even though it had been approved by the California Department of Housing and Community...
Dec 12, 2022
By Dianne Jackson McLean for the California Lawyers Association In the context of the No-Contact rule[1], an attorney sending an email or text which includes her client to another attorney may provide implied consent to the receiving attorney to hit the “Reply All”...
