The Drawn Out Battle over LA's City Council Maps
Challengers claiming Los Angeles City Council District 10 was racially gerrymandered have asked SCOTUS to step in. On the show...
Women Leadership in Law
Sally Q. Yates, former U.S. Deputy Attorney General and Acting Attorney General, and now partner with King & Spalding, joi...
9th mulls nationwide injunctions and mootness
Nationwide injunction critics say the remedy prevents lower court percolation; the 9th Circuit will test that thesis after ord...
SCOTUS DIG Deepens Uncertainty over Shareholder Suits
Can shareholders sue over tender offer misrepresentations and omissions? And is negligence the standard to meet? SCOTUS this w...
The Age of the Polar Court
Co-authors of the new book 'The Company They Keep: How Partisan Divisions Came to the Supreme Court,' Lawrence Baum (Ohio Stat...
In one of three bitterly-fought denials for rehearing en banc, the 9th Circuit let stand a ruling protecting homeless individu...
The Possibility of Non-Partisan Maps?
As the Supreme Court seems vexed once again by partisan gerrymandering challenges, we're joined by Benjamin Fliegel and Brian ...
The Beginning of the End for California's Death Penalty?
District Attorney Todd Spitzer (Orange County), veteran criminal defense attorney Robert Sanger (Sanger Swysen & Dunkle), ...
Career Retrospective: Richard Marmaro
Securities and white collar defense veteran Richard Marmaro (Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP) offers insights int...
Appellate Practice, California Courts of Appeal
A Tentative Proposal
The 1st District Court of Appeal would become the first California appellate court to use tentative rulings district-wide, if ...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Constitutional Law, Labor/Employment, Military Law
This week we're joined by four experts to chat through the week's biggest California-related appellate and constitutional news...
Environmental & Energy
Clarifying the Clean Water Act
SCOTUS has decided to hear an important 9th Circuit appeal regarding whether the Clean Water Act covers indirect discharges of...
Constitutional Law, U.S. Supreme Court
Establishment Clause at a Crossroads
The fight over a prominent, publicly-maintained cross memorializing war dead gives SCOTUS the chance to clarify a confused Est...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Judges and Judiciary, U.S. Supreme Court
SCOTUS Second Half
Several 9th Circuit appeals await resolution at the U.S. Supreme Court this term, and some other prominent petitions remain pe...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Constitutional Law
The Nascent, Nebulous NIFLA Doctrine
In its first chance to construe new First Amendment commercial speech doctrine articulated last spring by SCOTUS in 'NIFLA v. ...
Securities
Securities Law Special
As the 46th Securities Regulation Institute convenes in San Diego, we examine three prominent securities law cases under SCOTU...
Immigration
No Census Consensus
The government's plan to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census hit a judicial impasse Monday, in the form of a stern 2...
Constitutional Law
Does Free Speech End at Probable Cause?
When one's speech - rather than criminal activity - prompts an arrest, can a First Amendment retaliatory arrest claim be susta...
Constitutional Law
As U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts tries to minimize perceptions of politically motivated federal courts, the California Const...
California Supreme Court, Judges and Judiciary
Holiday Reprise: It's Groban (Confirmed)
It's confirmed: Joshua Groban will be the newest California Supreme Court justice. Revisit our conversation on Groban's appoin...
Education Law
What Process is Due Campus Sexual Assault Accused?
A California appellate court, again, has overturned university discipline rendered after a sexual assault claim, and the Depar...
California Supreme Court, Government
Pinching Pensions
The California Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday as to what latitude the state has to revise or reduce public employee p...
Judges and Judiciary
Let's Talk About Something Else 2: 'Obama' Judges
Judge James Donato (ND CA) and former U.S. Ambassador Jeff Bleich, in the second edition of their semi-regular podcast series,...
Constitutional Law, U.S. Supreme Court
Eighth Says 'Enough?'
Does the Eighth Amendment protect one against excessive fines levied by the state? As SCOTUS mulls this lingering incorporatio...
California Supreme Court, Judges and Judiciary
It's Groban
An expert panel reviews Gov. Brown's final high court selection, Joshua Groban. Justices Arthur Gilbert (2DCA/6) and Therese ...
Constitutional Law, Civil Litigation
What Interests the Public?
The California Supreme Court is set to answer an open question in anti-SLAPP jurisprudence: What's an 'issue of public interes...
U.S. Supreme Court
With a Lot of Help From Their Friends
Amicus filings at the Supreme Court are at record levels, and seem more influential than ever. They're also increasingly submi...
Environmental & Energy
An Uncertain Climate for Environmental Suits
Attorneys using judicial avenues to force action on climate change will confront - for the foreseeable future - a firmly conse...
U.S. Supreme Court
One Sex Forward, Two Steps Back?
For the first time, SCOTUS' law clerk class is majority female; but that milestone follows a bitter confirmation fight that ce...
The third episode of the DJ on the J.D., the Daily Journal's legal education podcast, features two first-year UCLA School of L...