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A Los Angeles Superior Judge found that California’s women on boards law, which required publicly traded companies to have at least one female board of director, was unconstitutional May 13.

The 2018 law by Sen. Hannah Beth-Jackson (D-Santa Barbara) required publicly held Californian companies to have at least one female director by January, 2020, and, depending on board size, to have up to three female directors by January, 2022.

Judge Maureen Lewis ruled the law discriminated by gender, forcing her to strictly scrutinize the law. Strict scrutiny requires a compelling state interest, and a solution that is narrowly tailored to achieve that state interest, for a law to

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