On Oct. 8, Gov. Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 239 into law, extending the state's hospital quality assurance fee, which was o...

In the fall of 2013, however, after significantly simplifying earlier shared solar proposals, California's support for communi...

On Sept. 20, Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law Senate Bill 4, one of several bills regarding the controversial practice of hydr...

A number of online service providers may, for the first time, be subject to California's data breach notification requirements...

Assembly Bill 1091 amends certain sections of the California Financial Code collectively known as the California Finance Lende...

Poll workers, legally known as "precinct board members," are seldom mentioned in media coverage of elections, yet they play an...

In Assembly Bill 748, the state Legislature recently amended the statutes that compel public entities to pay interest rates on...

Veterans join active service members as being protected against employment discrimination under state law. By Jacqueline J. Ha...

Passed in October 2013, Assembly Bill 460 requires health plans that cover infertility treatment to provide coverage without d...

A new California law requires operators of websites, mobile applications and other online services to disclose how they respon...

On Oct. 1, 2013, California became the third state to reject the indefinite detention provisions of the 2012 National Defense ...

Assembly Bill 327, enacted in October, could bring about significant changes for solar providers and investor-owned utilities ...

Assembly Bill 263 subjects employers to civil actions for damages and injunctive relief for engaging in certain "unfair immigr...

For several years, interest groups have lobbied the California and federal governments in an effort to pass legislation addres...

On Oct. 10, 2013, Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law Assembly Bill 218, codified in Section 432.9 of the Labor Code, which prohi...

Pursuant to Assembly Bill 10, the California minimum wage will increase from $8 to $9 per hour, effective July 1, 2014, and in...

Every year there are developments in employment law that challenge accepted norms of practice. In 2013 in particular, there we...

Last Tuesday, California lawmakers quietly moved a step closer to eroding one of our fundamental rights: a fair and impartial ...

There's a movement in the law-towards plain English. By Curtis E.A. Karnow ...

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. recently commented that the federal courts are going to be radically constrained by the bud...

A number of defendants, including a high profile Inland Empire developer, face state charges in a wide-ranging public corrupti...

The high court appears to have punted on reconsidering the standard establishing a ratio of 10-to-1 for punitive to compensato...

Firms represent company and underwriters, respectively, in Auspex Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s filing for a $61 million initial publ...

Gloria Borges, an O'Melveny & Myers LLP associate who dedicated much of her career to pro bono work, died Jan. 5 of colon ...

A leading maker of chemical flame retardants has sued the state of California to block its new furniture flammability standard...

On Jan. 13, a jury acquitted former officers Manuel Ramos and Jay Cicinelli in a case concerning the death of the homeless and...

The criminal conviction of an executive search specialist could well end up at the U.S. Supreme Court because the 9th U.S. Cir...

The State Bar will hire a lawyer and two investigators to pursue nonlawyers who provide legal services that harm consumers. It...

Santa Clara's charismatic and likeable Judge Sharon Chatman is a former college basketball coach.