A battle seemed inevitable until, by happenstance, a column of 50 U.S. Cavalrymen on a routine march from San Diego arrived in...

When proceedings move online, they become less formal. With less formality comes less worry about everything from performance ...

The parties bargained for arbitration, and, in turn, a different set of rules.

When SB 826 was enacted, 29 percent of California public companies had no women on their boards. By March 2021, the percentage...

It seems the audit is more likely to lead to agency bloat than improved efficiency.

The government got its project. In the process, private property was taken. After a trial, that property was valued, and the g...

Current conservatorship law neither implies nor requires a finding that a person is wholly incompetent. Eligibility for conser...

Just last year, the Fifth District Court of Appeal issued a decision in Antelope Valley Groundwater Cases v. Los Angeles Count...

The result was a family who now cannot assert claims for punitive damages against a health care provider who engaged in horrif...

Going forward, courts will likely consider new circumstances, and given the exponential increase in volume of remote work, new...

On appeal, the Court explained that while the government must pay when it takes private property, including a lien, there is a...

Fortunately, there are a few cases that have poked some holes in the liability barrier erected by Section 230 – thanks largely...

True gifts are not income the IRS can tax, but the line between what is income and what is a gift is sometimes disputed.

President Biden has proposed what he calls the “Billionaire Minimum Income Tax” as part of his new budget. The title is a misn...

In order to obtain coverage for disgorgement settlements, policyholders need to overcome a series of hurdles.

By asking the Legislature to change the College’s name, its Board of Directors is attempting to impair the contract that creat...

When evaluating a trial court’s rulings for potential abuse of discretion, look not only for both unreasonable trial court rul...

One of the most interesting pieces of legislation that ought to have a chance of passage is S.500 – a bipartisan bill that wou...

Victims are traumatized by crime. When the elected prosecutor tramples their rights and abandons them, they are traumatized a ...

The CPRA modifies the rights afforded to California residents under the CCPA and creates new rights, such as the right to limi...

As an example, one of my correspondents wrote to me that he is Jewish, and he had heard that some fellow inmates who were skin...

The airwaves, billboards, and internet, are now flooded with legal advertising – one result of which is to generate tens of mi...

Despite Batson/Wheeler, Black jurors are the subject of peremptory challenges about 72% of the time. In contrast, White jurors...

Law is more than words on a page; its spirit must be engraved on our hearts. Many decades later, this speech still rings true.

Due to AB 124 and other recently passed laws, it is more imperative than ever for lawyers and judges to be aware and informed ...

The players who embody the future of the game earn an annual salary of between $4,800 and $15,400. They also live in terrible ...

The movie is based on Theodore Dreiser’s classic novel “An American Tragedy” (1925). The deeper story is about the American cl...

In “tea rooms” or “shade rooms,” teens regularly post disparaging comments and photos of their peers and engage in online bull...

One employee, Chris Smalls, was frustrated by H.R.’s lack of responses to workers’ demands, so he organized an employee walkou...