The state Legislature's heavy-handed efforts to mandate diversity in California's corporate boardrooms have been dealt a second blow in just a few weeks.
Last month, Judge Terry A. Green of Los Angeles Superior Court overturned the law mandating that every public corporation in California have at least two members of specific "underrepresented" racial, ethnic and other groups on their boards of directors by the end of 2022.
And on Friday, another Superior Court judge, Maureen Duffy-Lewis, reached a similar conclusion, striking down a separate law requiring a certain number of women on every public company's board in the state. She said the law violated the equal protection clause of the California Constitution.
