Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the EPA in a case about carbon dioxide emissions. But was it really a victory...

The import of a copyright registration has been elevated to a level exceeding its intended function, and cases demonstrate how...

2014 saw a record number of exonerations. While there are many factors leading to false convictions, a few simple reforms to t...

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San Francisco's new "buyout" law is flawed even from a tenant-perspective, and may be held unconstitutional. ...

This case is the next chapter in the saga to determine what must be demonstrated (and by which party) to justify a so-called '...

Recent cases consider some of the vexing question that arise when California tries to project its regulatory power beyond stat...

A recent Supreme Court ruling can be viewed as a victory - but not a complete victory - for those who champion disparate impac...

On the one hand, why anticipate an argument that your opponent might never make? Why run the risk that the court will be impre...

Judges often decide cases involving arcane subjects in which our knowledge or skill is severely limited. For me, it is the eso...

According to a recent decision, a passenger who engages in reckless "backseat" driving may now be liable as an aider and abett...

Not on same-sex marriage, of course, but in a federal sentencing case that could send shock waves through California penitenti...

Learn about objections to questions considered vague, ambiguous or unintelligible, compound, argumentative, and asked and answ...

For the first time, a Court of Appeal ruling identifies that when a defendant is named later in the case, it is not naturally ...

Both the Senate and the House are working on legislation to rein in patent trolls. Don't be afraid to look at what they're put...

News reports on the "shocking" working conditions in many nail salons may well lead to the next wave of wage and hour class ac...

A class action filed Friday with the DOJ alleges that the court has been failing miserably in fulfilling its duty to provide l...

A recent opinion is a cautionary tale illustrating how a notice of appeal is jurisdictional and that, if the notice is filed t...

Last week, the provided inclusionary housing advocates a major policy and legal victory by unanimously ruling that an afforda...

As I listened to the interviews regarding Dolezal and the pundits of every color pontificating about a woman they don't know, ...

The high court upheld the state of Texas' right to refuse issuing a specialty license plate featuring an image of the Confeder...

On Monday, the U.S. high court said an agricultural program that requires farmers to set aside portions of their crop for the ...

California's new revenge porn law goes into effect July 1. The law will address some of the shortcomings of its predecessors.

Last week, a district court denied Sony Pictures' motion to dismiss as to Article III standing in a case involving a major dat...

If a ruling last week finding an Uber driver to be an employee rather than an independent contractor is a sign of things to co...

Congress has barred review of remand orders, but many federal judges seem to feel differently.

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The SEC has increasingly filed actions before its own administrative law judges - where it has a Harlem Globetrotters-like win...

Environmental lawyer Kathryn Oehlschlager provides a user's guide to California's priority system, curtailment, voluntary cutb...

In the wake of a 2014 9th Circuit decision, FedEx has reached a $228 million settlement with drivers who said they were miscla...