Entertainment & Sports
Stream it Tonight! A Civil Action (1999)
By Paul Bergman, Michael Asimow
Unlike many courtroom movies, A Civil Action allows viewers to peek behind the curtains of lawyers' strategies.
U.S. Supreme Court, Intellectual Property, Entertainment & Sports
The estate of Andy Warhol and Prince’s photographer square off in the Supreme Court
By Steven T. Lowe
Justice Clarence Thomas' fanhood of Prince aside, the Warhol case will impact a multitude of industries - specifically ...
Litigation & Arbitration, Class Action
Individual settlements do not require court approval
By Alexander M. Smith
When a district court states that it needs more information from the parties to approve an individual settlement, the parties ...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
The rules and ethics of investing in a client’s business
By Alanna G. Clair, Shari L. Klevens
As long as attorneys comply with certain requirements, entering into investment transactions is generally permitted by the Cal...
Litigation & Arbitration
Waiver of the right to arbitrate revisited
By Marc D. Alexander
Because Quach has been accepted for review by the California Supr...
Entertainment & Sports, Contracts
Curt Flood – the plaintiff who changed baseball forever
By Kevin Rayhill, Dan VanDeMortel
His legal “loss” should be remembered every season.
Just as the objective of both our criminal and civil justice systems is to find the truth, so this should be the objective of ...
For better or ill, we have an adversary system in our courts and so Judges deal with conflicts every day. And the public is wa...
Litigation & Arbitration
Failure to pay arbitration invoice can lead to trial, penalties
By Kerry Garvis Wright, Emma Samyan
Until the Legislature amends the statute, employers must be vigilant and timely pay all arbitration invoices
State Bar & Bar Associations, Letters
State Bar responds to criticism, and eliminates “physical requirements” for most of its job postings
By Justice Israel
Decisions regarding where children should live when one parent proposes to move away have caused substantial angst to parents,...
Congress could pass legislation to curb self-dealing abuses by future presidents, but it’s unlikely.
Government, Entertainment & Sports
Protecting the game and the children playing it
By Austin G. Ward
Between 1982 and 2013, approximately 800 cases of high-school-level, sport-related deaths were documented in the United States.
Government
Study that says police targeting minorities in traffic stops has many blind spots
By Tom Yu
The police must be empowered with the freedom to protect the community, not be called “racist” and “gang members” by the very ...
U.S. Supreme Court, Tax, Banking
A Bitt[n]er pill to swallow
By Robert E. Dugdale, Daniel Barlava
Supreme Court to consider method of calculating tax penalties for non-willful FBAR errors
Labor/Employment, Government
Assembly Bill 257: fast food workers just got super-sized
By May Mallari
Plaintiff’s attorneys will be integral in the enforcement of the FAST Recovery Act and should be encouraged to take on such ca...
Law Practice, Appellate Practice
Dead party, dead appeal
By Benjamin G. Shatz, Benjamin E. Strauss
The Grim Reaper visits everyone, including litigants and lawyers, and rarely at a convenient time. If those left behind are no...
Government
Beware of elected officials proposing recall reforms
By David A. Carrillo, Joshua Spivak
Automatic replacement doesn’t make recalls any cheaper – elections officials still need to hold the recall special election. I...
Trust litigation lawyers should not be hesitant to contact the estate planner or tax accountant associated with the estate’s s...
L.A. County will not be the first county in the state to take this important step to create a system of local government check...
California has passed two laws that will shield many wildfire victims from having to pay a state tax on their fire legal settl...
Entertainment & Sports
Stream it Tonight! Evelyn (2002)
By Michael Asimow, Paul Bergman
Though Ireland has a written constitution, the judges are steeped in the British tradition of parliamentary supremacy. Will th...
Law Practice, Appellate Practice
Pro Bono Week 2022 – law in everyday life
By Allison L. Wang
At its heart, the celebration is an opportunity to connect the pro bono community across the nation by showcasing the incredib...
U.S. Supreme Court, Litigation & Arbitration, Labor/Employment
Southwest Airlines provides safe landing for Domino's arbitration agreement
By Andrew Pincus
The Supreme Court's decisions about airplane cargo loaders and in-state delivery drivers undermine the Ninth Circuit's interpr...
Securities, Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Receivership: preserving justice in financial fraud cases
By Ryan Griffith
Financial fraud is becoming a cost of doing business, with no real repercussion other than monetary loss to a defendant that c...
U.S. Supreme Court, Labor/Employment, Constitutional Law
Get the Door. It’s Intrastate Delivery
By Jared W. Slater
Intrastate movement of the new good, created in-state, is not the same good that came from out-of-state.
U.S. Supreme Court, Banking
In Bittner v. United States, the rule of lenity awaits its renaissance
By Joshua M. Robbins
Once broadly and robustly applied to statutory interpretation in this country, the rule of lenity has fallen into relative dis...
Litigation & Arbitration
The status of plaintiffs’ post-offer costs when a 998 offer is rejected
By Laura Reathaford
If the purpose of 998 offers is to facilitate settlement by disincentivizing plaintiffs to proceed to trial in the face of rea...
Labor/Employment
Federal ban on nondisclosures for sex-based claim could be just a first step
By Sonya D. Goodwin
If victims of sexual assault avert further harm by making their stories public, the same should be true for minorities and the...
Litigation & Arbitration
Staying litigation while an order denying arbitration is appealed
By Gary A. Watt, Patrick Burns
The United States Supreme Court may soon decide whether appeals from orders denying arbitration automatically stay liti...