US Bank and Intel contest ERISA liability; insurers call de-appropriation of ACA funds a '$12 billion bait-and-switch'

The Courts considers DACA, stolen social security numbers in employment applications, and cross-border shootings.

Can California's Clean Air Act-exempted vehicle emissions regime survive an EPA rule change?

How much will AB 392's new police-use-of-force standard impact charging decisions and civil liability?

Just-signed SB 27 seeks income tax disclosures from next spring's presidential primary candidates. Will it stand?

Two cases last term gave SCOTUS a chance to meaningfully curtail administrative agency power; did the Court take it?

The 9th Circuit is mulling whether a JAMS arbitrator should have disclosed his part-ownership of the neutral company to partie...

A battery of amici ask FAA-friendly SCOTUS to overturn a 20-year California rule setting minimum arbitration standards.

After hearing argument the California Supreme Court has ordered additional briefing in a case that could reshape the contours...

Does California's regime ensure 'Brady' compliance? Or is proactive sharing between law enforcement and prosecutors needed?

Business-owner plaintiffs suffering 'purely economic losses' from the 2015 SoCalGas leak were barred Thursday from recovering ...

Challengers claiming Los Angeles City Council District 10 was racially gerrymandered have asked SCOTUS to step in. On the show...

Sally Q. Yates, former U.S. Deputy Attorney General and Acting Attorney General, and now partner with King & Spalding, joi...

Nationwide injunction critics say the remedy prevents lower court percolation; the 9th Circuit will test that thesis after ord...

Can shareholders sue over tender offer misrepresentations and omissions? And is negligence the standard to meet? SCOTUS this w...

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...

As the Supreme Court seems vexed once again by partisan gerrymandering challenges, we're joined by Benjamin Fliegel and Brian ...

District Attorney Todd Spitzer (Orange County), veteran criminal defense attorney Robert Sanger (Sanger Swysen & Dunkle), ...

Securities and white collar defense veteran Richard Marmaro (Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP) offers insights int...

The 1st District Court of Appeal would become the first California appellate court to use tentative rulings district-wide, if ...

This week we're joined by four experts to chat through the week's biggest California-related appellate and constitutional news...

SCOTUS has decided to hear an important 9th Circuit appeal regarding whether the Clean Water Act covers indirect discharges of...

The fight over a prominent, publicly-maintained cross memorializing war dead gives SCOTUS the chance to clarify a confused Est...

Several 9th Circuit appeals await resolution at the U.S. Supreme Court this term, and some other prominent petitions remain pe...

In its first chance to construe new First Amendment commercial speech doctrine articulated last spring by SCOTUS in 'NIFLA v. ...

As the 46th Securities Regulation Institute convenes in San Diego, we examine three prominent securities law cases under SCOTU...

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...

When one's speech - rather than criminal activity - prompts an arrest, can a First Amendment retaliatory arrest claim be susta...

As U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts tries to minimize perceptions of politically motivated federal courts, the California Const...