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In a unanimous and forceful decision in Fuld v. Palestine Liberation Organization, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the ...


Civil Rights

Despite a conservative tilt, the Supreme Court just made it easier for special education plaintiffs to sue for damages under d...


Local laws should be reviewed yearly to reflect new legislation, cultural shifts and fairness in enforcement -- San Francisco'...


Technology

Why ChatGPT writes fake court opinions

Jun. 25, 2025
By Clint Ehrlich

Artificial intelligence in law, especially large language models like ChatGPT, works by predicting the next word in a sequence...


Constitutional Law

Of pickleball, pretext and prayer

Jun. 25, 2025
By Michael M. Berger

Could a New Jersey township's plan to condemn a church for pickleball courts eventually become the U.S. Supreme Court case tha...


If you have California customers sending you money -- even if you've never set foot in the Golden State -- California's tax au...


Torts/Personal Injury

A new Supreme Court ruling hints that medical expenses from personal injuries might now open the door to RICO claims -- but ...


Letters

When judicial silence serves no one

Jun. 24, 2025
By Louis A. Lipofsky

Legal institutions must condemn intimidation of judges and actions that undermine the judicial system.


Antitrust & Trade Reg.

DOJ reevaluates corporate monitorships: What antitrust counsel need to know

Jun. 24, 2025
By Nana Wilberforce, John W. O'Toole

The DOJ's growing skepticism of corporate monitorships may signal a shift for the Antitrust Division -- companies should seize...


Government, Constitutional Law

In the face of escalating violence and political resistance, federal ICE and CBP agents, attacked by rioters and left without ...


Military Law, Constitutional Law

The Constitution is quiet while the missiles fly

Jun. 23, 2025
By Allan Lee Dollison

As tensions escalate between Israel and Iran, the United States faces renewed pressure to weigh military involvement -- raisin...


Judges and Judiciary, Ethics/Professional Responsibility

Silence isn't strength when the courts are under attack

Jun. 23, 2025
By Curtis E.A. Karnow

Judges face rising threats and disinformation, yet ethics rules keep most silent, leaving attacks on the courts dangerously un...


As accusations of politically motivated "debanking" grow louder, from religious groups to crypto firms, regulators and courts ...


Health Care & Hospital Law, Criminal

Involuntary medication and pretrial detainees: What the law says

Jun. 23, 2025
By Dmitry Gorin, Alan Eisner

Many clients with mental health challenges face struggles in criminal court, where expedited procedures -- including involunta...


Criminal

When confidentiality meets crime, California lawyers face a fine line

MCLE
Jun. 23, 2025
By Joanna L. Storey Mishler

The American Bar Association's guidance about reporting criminal acts of a client does not necessarily apply in California.


Torts/Personal Injury, Government

School's out, liability's gone

Jun. 20, 2025
By Michael E. Rubinstein

Under California law, school districts are generally immune from liability for student injuries that occur off school property...


Technology

A Georgia court's dismissal of the first AI hallucination defamation suit underscores just how early -- and unsettled -- the l...


Torts/Personal Injury, Government

California's Vehicle Code section 17004.7 provides public entities with immunity from liability in pursuit-related crashes i...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility

St. Thomas More, long celebrated as a martyr of conscience and hero of faith, was also a zealous persecutor who used state p...


The family law crisis in California is driven by overwhelmed and underfunded courts, a high percentage of self-represented l...


Technology, Intellectual Property

Generative AI platforms are turning to centuries-old public domain documents to train their systems and sidestep billion-dolla...


While responses to Requests for Production that promise to produce only "relevant" documents may seem reasonable, they in fact...


Torts/Personal Injury, Technology

Devastated parents and bipartisan leaders are calling for urgent reform of Section 230, as Big Tech continues to hide behind t...


Torts/Personal Injury

Roots and routes: Untangling tree-fall cases from trail immunity

Jun. 18, 2025
By Robert Glassman, Joe O'Hanlon

Public entities often invoke trail immunity in tree-fall cases, but Toeppe v. City of San Diego draws a clear line--if...


Torts/Personal Injury, Civil Litigation

Lead and mercury exposure in firefighters: What to look for and what comes next

Jun. 18, 2025
By Kathleen N. Mastagni Storm, Jonathan Drake Char

As urban fires grow more toxic, firefighters face mounting exposure to dangerous substances like mercury, lead, and carcinogen...


Government, Civil Rights

True democracy requires collaboration

Jun. 18, 2025
By Sidney Kanazawa

True democracy requires not domination or division, but humble, courageous collaboration across our differences.


Real Estate/Development


Real Estate/Development

Are condos a solution to underperforming commercial properties?

Jun. 18, 2025
By Shannon Mandich, Brooke Miller


Real Estate/Development


Real Estate/Development

The 'abundance agenda' and alternative dispute resolution

Jun. 18, 2025
By Gideon Kracov, Darrell Steinberg