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...
Constitutional Law, Immigration, U.S. Supreme Court
Empirical Kavanaugh
Adam Feldman, from the blog Empirical SCOTUS, offers a quantitative-based preview of Brett Kavanaugh's first term. And Seth St...
Appellate Practice
The 'Dean' of the California Appellate Bar
Ellis Horvitz, founder of Horvitz & Levy and pioneer of appellate-focused legal practice, was honored Friday as the inaugu...
Judges and Judiciary, U.S. Supreme Court
Judge James Donato (ND CA) and former U.S. Ambassador Jeff Bleich, on the first of a hopefully ongoing podcast series, provide...
U.S. Supreme Court
Is 8 Enough? A True 'Roberts Court' Begins
As a new Supreme Court term commences, partly overshadowed by a seething political feud surrounding the proposed new ninth jus...
Constitutional Law, U.S. Supreme Court
The Most Dangerous Branch
David Kaplan, 'Newsweek' veteran and Supreme Court chronicler, visits to discuss his new book 'The Most Dangerous Branch: Insi...
Immigration
Immigration Roundup
An en banc 9th Circuit will reconsider whether due process in removal proceedings guarantees undocumented minors government-sp...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Constitutional Law, U.S. Supreme Court
Americans for Transparency?
The 9th Circuit rejected a Koch Industries-backed charity's claim that requiring disclosure of top donor information violates ...