If your uncle, best friend or bank loans you money, is it taxable? Nope, not if it’s a real loan. But the loan or income disti...

A pivotal First Amendment case involving student use of social media and the allowable boundaries of school regulation of off-...

The intentional deprivation of the life of an appeal can occur contractually.

Here is a quick introduction to the Los Angeles County Bench Trial Pilot Program and some tips for preserving appellate issues...

While struggle over reform or repeal of the shield on police and prison guard abuse and misconduct continues in Congress and i...

In February, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Chair of the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee, introduced the Competition and Antitrust Law Enfo...

Irreparable harm, although a necessary element of injunctive relief, can be difficult to pin down in unfair competition cases....

There has been a paucity of published cases addressing causation in legal malpractice actions over the past several years. How...

As the legal industry adapts to society’s increasing dependence on technology, proceedings previously conducted in person have...

Whether for personal interactions or for political and commercial purposes, everyone these days seems to be on Facebook, Twitt...

A unanimous Supreme Court held that if the cops want to get inside your house and take your guns, they’re going to need a warr...

Under 28 U.S.C. Section 1782(a), a federal district court can order a resident of its district to testify or produce documents...

Notwithstanding the dangers of celebrity-legislating, the attention to conservatorships created by the Britney Spears case has...

As California is aiming to scrap the color-coded tier system that has restricted the operations of businesses by June 15, Gov....

Last November, I was supposed to go home. I had served 17 years in prison for a crime I committed at age 20. I was granted cle...

Of 400 or so 3rd District decisions in cases since 2018 that have languished between two and eight years, some 250 are in crim...

The current wave of anti-Asian prejudice has long-standing antecedents in California. As but one early example, the state repe...

A recent explosion of social science research documents the collateral consequences of pretrial incarceration, such as the los...

On May 7, the Justice Department released a proposed rule that adds teeth to President Joe Biden’s promise to crack down on “g...

Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 5 has an unusual gap.

Until recently, individual states led the initial push to comprehensively regulate per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances.

Good attorneys know that they must stridently attempt to anticipate the legal posturing that their opposition will seek to dep...

Artificial intelligence has been making its debut for some time now partially because the term means so many things to so many...

The reason for the startling default judgment against the Endo defendants in a recent case was founded in a fraud on the court...

The time has come to revisit the Feres problem of whether intra-military sexual assault qualifies as an “activity incident to ...

A recent Supreme Court ruling may give oil companies an advantage when it comes to removing climate change lawsuits to federal...

Not so long ago, I was one of you. Trust me when I say that I generally understand the various pressures you face. But I now h...

The 9th Circuit recently issued a ruling that extends the statute of limitations in certain criminal cases potentially for dec...

Two unknowns of European trademark law were just answered in a case involving one of the oldest and largest wineries in Los An...

Immediately upon taking office last December, Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón announced several abrupt and controv...