Corporate Board Diversity Mandates Under Fire in California
MSK Client Alert
June 15, 2022
California’s groundbreaking laws mandating corporate board diversity are under fire as two California courts recently ruled them unconstitutional. The courts struck down two California statutes – SB 826 and AB 979 – which required corporations doing business in the Golden State to have a certain number of sitting directors who were female or who were identified as members of an “underrepresented community.”