In Duke, the California Supreme Court expanded the power of the trial court to admit extrinsic evidence to correct mistakes in...

On June 9, the California Public Utilities Commission issued an order designating all gig drivers classified as independent co...

Heller is almost a teenager. It’s time for the Supreme Court to change the status of the Second Amendment-from legal orphan, t...

Now the Trump administration has repurposed the First Amendment. Even those of us who are many years away from being bleary ey...

A battle raging over the prospect of sports betting in California is set to play out this Thursday in the California Senate.

Commercial and residential tenants and landlords seeking to address the financial impact of COVID-19 shelter-in-place orders a...

Offering significant relief from the repercussions of the coronavirus pandemic, the Internal Revenue Service recently released...

On Monday, the Supreme Court inexplicably denied certiorari in a number of cases which posed issues concerning qualified immun...

Only a little more than a week after the protests started, a panel of the 4th Circuit issued an opinion on the use of excessiv...

Though he never went to law school, Joe Tussman co-authored one of the foundational pieces underlying the Supreme Court’s expa...

Everyone knows that tax returns are due April 15 most years. In California, that means both the IRS and the FTB. But 2020 has ...

Recently, Sen. Mike Braun introduced the Conditional Approval Act, which would amend the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act t...

“Protecting the powerless”? The most esteemed and well-paid lawyers of their times tirelessly petitioned legislatures and judg...

Easing the restrictions of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act’s Payment Protection Program program, on Jun...

Even the best tax planning tends to be complex and unpredictable. Recently, however, planners have become interested in a simp...

Recognizing the issue as a matter of first impression, the Court of Appeal construed the statutory language as limiting covera...

There would seem to exist a wide chasm between the constitutional protections afforded by the contract clause to protect again...

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra is leading a multistate coalition in filing suit against the EPA, Department of Tr...

COVID-19 has turned the world as we know it upside-down, but it has done quite a number on the civil court system. In its rush...

Asian-American Heritage Month, May, has ended, and just as well. The government proposals made as the celebrations were conclu...

Each juror brings a unique perspective and experience to the process, but together they create new energy. When jurors aren’t ...

Usually, crisis and stress are catalysts for incivility, yet it seems that people are trying harder to be “nice” now in virtua...

It’s a funny thing about the Rule of Law: It’s not a rule, and it’s not a law. It is, rather, a set of principles, a body of n...

Ironically, in a vote cast by email to ensure their own safety in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the California Judicial ...

We lawyers are accustomed to incremental change based on reasoned consideration of precedent. Legal precedent is designed to c...

The 6th District Court of Appeal recently issued a landmark decision upholding the trial court’s sustaining of a demurrer, wit...

In reviewing uses of force, what law departments now consider as facts relevant to determining whether force is reasonable sig...

In a report issued on June 4, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which oversees most nursing homes in the United...

Attorney General William Barr does not know a good cop from a bad one. United States District Judge Emmitt Sullivan may soon t...

A recent ruling provides an introductory law school review of what is hearsay and what is not.