Labor/Employment,
Government,
Civil Rights
Apr. 1, 2022
Corporate diversity law violates 14th amendment, group argues
AB 979, which Gov. Gavin Newsom signed in 2020, requires companies headquartered in California include members of “underrepresented communities” on their boards.
Plaintiffs trying to overturn a California law requiring diverse corporate boards have filed a new motion for summary judgment, calling AB 979 a “facially invalid” race quota.
“This is a paradigmatic violation of the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause,” wrote Michael Buschbacher, counsel with Boyden Gray & Associates PLLC in Washington, D.C. “Racial classifications are antithetical to the 14th Amendment, whose ‘central purpose’ w...
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