Nationwide injunction critics say the remedy prevents lower court percolation; the 9th Circuit will test that thesis after ord...
Recent attorney disbarments, suspensions, probations, and public reprovals in California.
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...
Recent attorney disbarments, suspensions, probations, and public reprovals in California.
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...
Recent attorney disbarments, suspensions, probations, and public reprovals in California.
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. ...
Recent attorney disbarments, suspensions, probations, and public reprovals in California.
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...
Recent attorney disbarments, suspensions, probations, and public reprovals in California.
It's confirmed: Joshua Groban will be the newest California Supreme Court justice. Revisit our conversation on Groban's appoin...
A California appellate court, again, has overturned university discipline rendered after a sexual assault claim, and the Depar...
The California Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday as to what latitude the state has to revise or reduce public employee p...
Recent attorney disbarments, suspensions, probations, and public reprovals in California.
Judge James Donato (ND CA) and former U.S. Ambassador Jeff Bleich, in the second edition of their semi-regular podcast series,...
Does the Eighth Amendment protect one against excessive fines levied by the state? As SCOTUS mulls this lingering incorporatio...
An expert panel reviews Gov. Brown's final high court selection, Joshua Groban. Justices Arthur Gilbert (2DCA/6) and Therese ...
The California Supreme Court is set to answer an open question in anti-SLAPP jurisprudence: What's an 'issue of public interes...