Court Rules California’s Corporate Diversity Law Unconstitutional

A person looks toward snow-topped mountains behind the Los Angeles downtown skyline following heavy rains, as seen from the Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area in Los Angeles on Dec. 15, 2021. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

A Los Angeles court determined on April 1 that a California law requiring certain workplace boardroom quotas of underrepresented communities is unconstitutional.

Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit (pdf) in early October 2020 arguing that any spending of taxpayer funds or taxpayer-paid resources on the quota law is “illegal under the California Constitution.”