{"schema_version":"secwatch.filing_event.v1","accession":"0000940394-23-000226","form_type":"8-K","ticker":"CEV","cik":"0001074692","company_name":"Eaton Vance California Municipal Income Trust","filed_at":"2023-02-01T23:59:59+00:00","discovered_at":"2026-05-14T18:03:43.781638+00:00","generated_at":"2026-06-20T03:24:46.881308+00:00","sec_items":["8.01","9.01"],"event_type":"other_material","sentiment":"neutral","materiality_score":0.4,"calibrated_materiality_score":0.4,"confidence":"high","headline":"Eaton Vance California Municipal Income Trust Board Exempts Control Share Acquisitions Following Court Ruling","bullets":["Board voted to exempt on a going forward basis all prior and new purchases that might be deemed Control Share Acquisitions from the control share by-law.","Decision follows Massachusetts Superior Court ruling on Jan 23, 2023 that the by-law violates Section 18(i) of the Investment Company Act of 1940.","Court granted Saba Capital's claim for rescission of the by-law but found Board had legitimate business reason for adopting it.","Litigation with Saba Capital Master Fund, Ltd. is ongoing in Massachusetts Superior Court.","Exemption applies to 24 Eaton Vance closed-end funds, including CEV, EVM, EOI, EOS, EFT, EVV, and others."],"urls":{"canonical":"https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000940394-23-000226","json":"https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000940394-23-000226.json","markdown":"https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000940394-23-000226.md","text":"https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000940394-23-000226.txt","edgar_index":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1074692/000094039423000226/0000940394-23-000226-index.htm","edgar_primary_document":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1074692/000094039423000226/cev8k.htm"},"model":{"generated_by":"deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2","generated_at":"2026-06-20T03:24:46.881308+00:00"},"review":{"review_status":"machine_generated","human_reviewed":false,"corrected":false,"correction_note":null,"correction_timestamp":null,"superseded_by":null,"related_filings":[]},"source_grounded_claims":[],"license":"Source filings: public domain (SEC EDGAR). Summaries (headline + bullets): CC-BY-4.0; attribute https://secwatch.observer"}