Senate Bill 1146 targets students at faith-based colleges and universities by shrinking an existing religious exemption and th...

One of the overarching themes to the Supreme Court's review of Federal Circuit cases in the last 15 years is that the Federal ...

In CDX Holdings Inc. v. Fox, the Delaware Supreme Court affirmed the Delaware Court of Chancery's decision that a cla...

A lawsuit in federal court seeking a ruling that the song "This Land is Your Land" is the latest in a series of recent copyrig...

Last Thursday a unanimous jury exonerated British rockers Jimmy Page and Robert Plant -- two members of the storied Led Zeppel...

In many cases a provisional patent application covering trade secrets should be filed immediately after conception or acquisit...

An increasingly fractured community is one force stopping patent reform, and much of the debate has been increasingly driven b...

As U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen wrote back in February 2015, DAPA doesn't merely set deportation priorities, but engages i...

I read the two lawyer's positions on the Peruta v. San Diego concealed carry decision with a kind of sad amusement.

A recent 9th Circuit decision does three things that will significantly impact wage and hour class actions. By Hunter Pyle ...

Social workers should be able to place hospital holds on children without facing suits for Fourth Amendment seizure if a child...

Most client requests reflect a need for immediate help, or what the client thinks is a need for immediate help — which is the ...

As a progressive San Francisco Democrat and a conservative Orange County Republican, we often disagree, but we do agree that t...

Earn MCLE credit reviewing what constitutes part of the record of conviction which is admissible to prove serious felony priors.

The tightening of judicial budgets here in California has hit litigants with limited budgets especially hard: The affordabilit...

while insured defendants are accustomed to looking to their liability insurers for a defense to potentially covered claims, in...

Securing America's Future Energy: Protecting our Infrastructure of Pipelines and Enhancing Safety Act, and ensuing proposed re...

Spain's high-stakes criminal tax trial of footballer Lionel Messi and his father has concluded, although no verdict has yet be...

A recent case is a good reminder that judges should remain vigilant in identifying potential and perceived bias. By Kathleen E...

In contrast with New York, whose courts embrace arbitration, California state courts frequently evince hostility to arbitratio...

Within minutes after the U.S. Supreme Court announced Thursday it was divided 4-4 in the case involving President Obama's exec...

At issue here is not disclosure in the conflicts sense, but in common sense: telling the client. How do you decide whether to ...

Personal injury settlements, or as the California Legislature calls them, "community estate personal injury damages," are pres...

Three weeks prior to the end of the current U.S. Supreme Court term, the justices have reversed four 9th Circuit decisions. On...

In a 6-2 victory for car dealers across the nation, the U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a 9th Circuit opinion holding that ser...

9th Circuit gets it right by allowing counties to limit the public carrying of loaded guns.

The 9th Circuit was flat out disingenuous in a recent decision upholding a concealed carry ban while refusing to consider the ...

The D.C. Circuit's approval of the FCC's Open Internet Order — declaring that broadband facilities are telecommunications serv...

Thursday will conclude one of the two campaigns commenced in late February, concerning who should succeed Justice Antonin Scal...

It remains to be seen whether Senate Bill 269 will have the impact its advocates desire: reduce the extraordinary number of AD...