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Sep. 29, 2021

Challenge to women directors law must go to trial, judge rules

Enacted as Senate Bill 826 in 2018, the law requires California’s publicly traded corporations to have at least one and possibly up to three female directors on their boards by the end of this year.

Setting up a battle of experts on gender equality, a Los Angeles County judge said Tuesday that a challenge to a state law mandating publicly held companies appoint more women to corporate boards will go to trial next month.

Superior Court Judge Maureen Duffy-Lewis, in a motion for summary judgment hearing last week, expressed concerns the law was misguided, pointing to the g...

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