Across the United States, millions of people have been incarcerated while awaiting a court date simply because they cannot com...

Defense attorney Michael Ogul recently wrote an opinion piece titled “A clearer prosecutor rule would benefit all.” Here’s my ...

So-called “reliance disclaimers” and “fraud carve-outs” in private company purchase agreements — designed, respectively, to pr...

On July 27, House Republicans unveiled a bill, the Save Local Business Act (H.R. 3441), that would amend two labor and employm...

Newspapers, television and social media have been forums for recent commentary on whether President Donald J. Trump could use ...

Lithium — the natural resource mined from the Earth’s crust — is perhaps the best-known commodity that people know the least a...

Five plaintiffs that use medical cannabis to treat their ailments, recently filed suit to remove marijuana from its Schedule I...

The president of the United States may block you if you do — but is he allowed to do that?

A number of “natural” food labeling class actions have been lingering in California federal courts for some time, many waiting...

I thought, why not try the new e-filing system? Cutting down on paper copies, and not having to pay a filing service to cart a...

Prosecutors, individuals accused of crimes, and all Californians would be better served by making it clear that a prosecutor’s...

Recently, three California local governments filed lawsuits against 37 major energy companies, seeking damages for the compani...

Does it violate the First Amendment for the state of California to force merchants who charge more to customers paying with cr...

It is believed that this decision is the first which extends the concept of computer “use” or “violation” to the practice of “...

In one recent criminal tax case, a man and woman filing their taxes jointly got three years in prison — each. We’ll come back ...

Former District Judge Vaughn R. Walker reviews Joel Cohen’s new book, “Broken Scales: Reflections on Injustice.”

On July 18, a column by Erwin Chemerinsky, “A troubling free exercise decision,” strongly disagreed with the decision by the U...

Last week, the California Legislature approved a 10-year extension of California’s cap-and-trade program. When signed into law...

President Donald Trump's recent appointments of labor law traditionalists, Marvin E. Kaplan and William J. Emanuel, to the NLR...

In each of the past two weeks the Daily Journal has printed Dean Erwin Chemerinsky’s assertion that the U.S. Supreme Court hel...

On July 18, a column by Erwin Chemerinsky, “A troubling free exercise decision,” strongly disagreed with the decision by the U...

Most real estate professionals are aware of the so-called “owner-builder” exemption to California’s contractors’ license laws....

To be sure, a congressional defunding of the ACA could be every bit as dangerous as a president with a smartphone. Outright el...

While Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell indicated that the Senate would vote on health care legislation on Tuesday, it wa...

Instead of clarity, at the end of its last term the Supreme Court gave us more vague issues that will engender years of litiga...

How can such an industry exist without any regulatory control? Enter Big Tobacco.

The 2nd Circuit stated that the issue was whether the arbitrator had the authority to certify a class which included absent cl...

Employers in the position of having to defend against a PAGA claim will likely be compelled to produce state-wide employee con...

The three branches need to improve the operation of the system with surgical strikes, best done by the courts for the most par...

Last week the Assembly and Senate judiciary committees approved amendments to a bill (Senate Bill 36, Jackson) that would make...