wrote in Marathon v. Blasi, 42 Cal. 4th 974, 991 (2008): “The Act is silent – completely silent – on the subject of the proper remedy for illegal procurement. As the Act has no codified penalty, following Wood, Loving, Severance and Smith, Buchwald'' was a judicial error: it should have held that no adjudicator has the authority to affect the contract of an unlicensed representative. Had it been, none of the $500,000,000+ of monies that have been forfeited would have been. When the National Conference of Personal Managers, a trade association of talent agencies, sued the State and the Labor Commissioner in federal court to enjoin enforcement of the law in 2012, the organization did not know to use the 'no penalty' argument. As presented, the case was dismissed, and the Ninth Circuit affirmed in 2015. References California law Talent agencies