Question: Are incarcerated persons in California entitled to in-person court hearings? Short Answer: No, Proposition 57 does not require or imply a right to an in-person hearing. In a 2022 decision, the California Court of Appeal ruled that nonviolent prisoners...
By Gerard J. Horgan, CJM, JD | Retired Superintendent Suffolk and Norfolk County, Massachusetts The law regarding an offender’s access to the courts was made clear nearly 40 years ago when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on a case from North Carolina. In Bounds...
By Eric Geringswald | CSC Colorado Laws Governing Business Entities Annotated Colorado's General Assembly added or amended more than 70 sections of the state’s business entity laws during the 2023 legislative session, including a new chapter of the...
By Eric Geringswald | CSC Florida Laws Governing Business Entities Annotated Florida’s General Assembly added or amended more than 40 sections of the state’s business entity laws, including new and revised provisions for securities issuances and...
By Eric Geringswald | CSC New Jersey Laws Governing Business Entities New Jersey lawmakers added legislation to the state’s business entity laws allowing conversions and domestications of all entity types, including foreign and domestic corporations....
By Eric Geringswald | CSC New York Laws Governing Business Entities Annotated 2023 Legal professionals around the country need a comprehensive and up-to-date resource to handle complex M&A transactions and related corporate litigation for New York entities...
By Eric Geringswald | CSC Delaware lawmakers added or amended more than 40 sections of the state’s business laws governing Delaware corporations and alternative entities during the latest legislative session. Changes went into effect on August 1, 2023....
By Eric Geringswald | CSC Highlights from the 2023 Nevada Legislative Session Nevada's General Assembly concluded the 82 nd legislative session in June, enacting more than three dozen statutory changes affecting corporations, securities, and related sections...
By Eric Geringswald | CSC Virginia Business Law 2023 Virginia business attorneys and professionals take note - the latest edition of Virginia Laws Governing Business Entities Annotated from CSC Publishing and LexisNexis is now available! This indispensable...
By Eric Geringswald | CSC Georgia Business Law Georgia legislators approved a number of changes to the state's business entity statutes during the 2023 session, including changes to the securities law to protect elder and disabled adults who may be victims...
By Bruce Bergman | Partner, Berkman, Henoch, Peterson, Peddy & Fenchel, P.C. The Voluntary Payment Doctrine and Mortgage Foreclosures In the real world of mortgage foreclosure , there are events which occur with some apparently increasing frequency: after...
Law Librarians and Equity In the world of legal education , law librarians stand as the champions of curation, organization, and dissemination of legal information for first-year law students, seniors studying for the bar, and seasoned law professors alike. ...
By Steven G. M. Stein | Partner, Stein Ray LLP Pay if Paid Provisions Shift Risk of Non-Payment Downstream Pay if paid provisions are quite common in construction subcontracts, shifting the risk of non-payment by an owner to a general contractor (or a higher...
Oklahoma Laws Governing Business Entities Annotated The 2023 edition of CSC's Oklahoma Laws Governing Business Entities Annotated is now available. This comprehensive resource provides legal professionals with the comprehensive resource they need to counsel...
By Eric Geringswald | CSC Louisiana Laws Governing Business Entities Annotated CSC has just released the first edition of Louisiana Laws Governing Business Entities Annotated . Published in collaboration with legal publisher LexisNexis®, the book is a comprehensive...