A California state superior court judge struck down a diversity mandate that ordered public companies in the state to have at least one minority board member by the end of 2021.
As part of a 2020 lawsuit that objected to the new law as unconstitutional, Judge Terry Green ruled Friday that creating quotas on public company boards for members of a particular race, ethnicity, or sexual preference violated the state constitution. He agreed with the arguments regarding the law’s constitutionality put forth by Judicial Watch, the nonprofit conservative group that filed the lawsuit.
