Conservative group sues to overturn California law requiring diversity on corporate boards

[TexasTowelie]

A shareholder advocacy organization filed a lawsuit this week challenging a state law that mandates public corporations headquartered in California to appoint people of color or LGBTQ leaders to their boards of directors.

The National Center for Public Policy Research filed the complaint on Tuesday, claiming “the diversity quotas injure Plaintiff’s right to vote for the candidate of its choice, free of a government-imposed race, sex, and sexual orientation quotas,” according to the lawsuit filed in the District Court for the Eastern District of California.

It is the latest legal challenge threatening the fate of the law, Assembly Bill 979, signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom last year.

The organization is being represented by The Pacific Legal Foundation, which filed a lawsuit in 2019 on behalf of a shareholder challenging a similar law, Senate Bill 826, that requires California companies to appoint more women to their boards of directors.

Read more at: https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article256065402.html

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1. While I agree with the sentiment of the law

And most corporate boards simply no longer have this issue.

From a legal standpoint I think the suit has some merit.