Government, Constitutional Law
Behind the mask: Why federal agents won't bow to California's SB 627
By Tom Yu
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
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
By Curtis E.A. Karnow
Judges face rising threats and disinformation, yet ethics rules keep most silent, leaving attacks on the courts dangerously un...
Banking
Banking on neutrality: Rising tensions and the new risks of debanking
By Diane Cafferata
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
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
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
By Michael E. Rubinstein
Under California law, school districts are generally immune from liability for student injuries that occur off school property...
Technology
Georgia court tosses AI defamation suit against OpenAI in first-of-its-kind ruling
By Kevin L. Vick, Jean-Paul Jassy
A Georgia court's dismissal of the first AI hallucination defamation suit underscores just how early -- and unsettled -- the l...
Torts/Personal Injury, Government
Will California's pursuit immunity protect public safety or set dangerous precedents?
By Tyler Sherman
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: A good or bad role model for lawyers and judges?
By Dan Lawton
St. Thomas More, long celebrated as a martyr of conscience and hero of faith, was also a zealous persecutor who used state p...
Letters
In family court, justice is being delayed and children are suffering
By Eugene M. Hyman
The family law crisis in California is driven by overwhelmed and underfunded courts, a high percentage of self-represented l...
Technology, Intellectual Property
Everything old is new again as voracious GenAI systems turn to 600-year-old texts for training
By Anita Taff-Rice
Generative AI platforms are turning to centuries-old public domain documents to train their systems and sidestep billion-dolla...
Ediscovery
Don't let an adverse party commit to producing 'relevant' documents
By Ian Pike
While responses to Requests for Production that promise to produce only "relevant" documents may seem reasonable, they in fact...
Torts/Personal Injury, Technology
Kids are dying and it's time to hold big tech accountable
By Lori E. Andrus
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
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
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...
True democracy requires not domination or division, but humble, courageous collaboration across our differences.
Real Estate/Development
Replacing homes, replacing intent: LA's housing law dilemma
By Sheri L. Bonstelle
Real Estate/Development
Are condos a solution to underperforming commercial properties?
By Shannon Mandich, Brooke Miller
Real Estate/Development
Buyer-broker relationship overhauled: Key changes under AB 2992
By Bryan Mashian
Real Estate/Development
The 'abundance agenda' and alternative dispute resolution
By Gideon Kracov, Darrell Steinberg
Real Estate/Development
A tale of two policies: California's expanding regulatory reach and the selective deregulation of infill housing
By Benjamin Saltsman
Eyeing federal land use for new housing and its hurdles
Military Law, Constitutional Law
Judge Breyer got it exactly right
By Erwin Chemerinsky
In a powerful and meticulously reasoned opinion, Judge Charles Breyer correctly ruled that President Trump's unprecedented fed...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Words as weapons: Protecting the bench one word at a time
By Wendy L. Patrick
In response to escalating threats and violence against judges, California has proposed amendments to Rules of Professional Con...
Litigation & Arbitration
State Supreme Court takes on compelled arbitration and elder abuse
By Mike Arias, Uri H. Niv
The California Supreme Court is poised to clarify when arbitration agreements signed by nursing home residents can compel thei...
Constitutional Law
When the military meets the streets it's a dangerous step toward autocracy
By Dan Jacobson
The deployment of military forces to Los Angeles amid peaceful protests lacks constitutional or statutory justification and ra...
Who can't recover for defamation even though they may have been libeled?
Technology, Intellectual Property
Why AI's use of shadow libraries should alarm us all
By Margaux Poueymirou, Maxwell V. Pritt
For $100,000 in crypto, Anna's Archive is offering AI companies high-speed access to 140 million pirated books and articles--f...
Constitutional Law
The shaky foundation - Part I: 2nd Amendment weirdos
By Myron Moskovitz
If a legal doctrine rests on a flawed foundation, the rulings built on it will be unstable--and that's exactly what's happened...