The high court may have allowed the plaintiffs' claims to 'pass go,' but they may not be able to collect 200 dollars after the...

Last week, banker and secular Bangladeshi writer, Ananta Bijoy Das, was hacked to death by men with machetes as he left his ho...

Egg donors are sometimes paid up to $50,000. Many donors assume these payments are tax-free, since payments for physical injur...

On Monday, the Federal Circuit vacated $382 million of the $930 million in damages awarded to Apple against Samsung related to...

Unfortunately, a closer look at recent statistics released by the governor's office paint a much different story on diversity ...

Standing alone, the U.S. high court's decision in Dental Examiners did not represent any new challenges for the State B...

On May 6, the European Commission issued a new digital single market strategy for Europe laying out the proposed roadmap for a...

Last week, the state high court rejected arguments that settlement payments exceeding the costs of litigation or the value of ...

Does a recent decision by the U.S. high court represent the beginning of a new jurisprudence in the area of campaign finance law?

Long before the recent events in Garland, Texas, some members of PEN, an association of writers, were suffering from their own...

On May 6, San Francisco's city attorney announced a settlement marking the first widely reported resolution of an action again...

A recent article, while rightly highlighting the need for a diverse judiciary, also unfairly ignores important strides that ha...

Appellate justices and law clerks are busy. They do not want to - and won't - take the time to decipher and untangle ambiguous...

While the adoption of the most significant revisions to the CFRA regulations in 20 years is primarily good news for employers,...

A recent Supreme Court ruling has indirectly prevented the 9th Circuit from continuing to circumvent state courts in habeas co...

In accepting a recent case, it appears that the Supreme Court wishes to address where class actions fit within our legal syste...

In Williams-Yulee, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for a majority that found him joining with the court's four liberal justic...

On Monday, the U.S. high court asked for the solicitor general's views in a case brought by Nebraska and Oklahoma against Colo...

Last May, I wrote about the Montana rape case that drew national attention, shock and ire. Due to the gravity of the crime, th...

"No one has to read a word I write" In a column in the New York Times last month, novelist Robin Black suggests "emerging" wri...

In the 1990s and early 2000s, the accepted practice was that a joint caucus should be held at the beginning of every mediation...

Flo & Eddie's battle over the rights to pre-1972 recordings has reached the 9th Circuit - and the implications of the deci...

California public school children perfecting their "lotus position" - and their parents - need not worry about the future of y...

The latest skirmish in the ongoing Immigration Wars is taking place in a Texas border town - and the ability of a state to hal...

Learn about how LPS conservatorships provide a safety net for those individuals who cannot fend for themselves due to a mental...

Should law partners be subject to payroll taxes in the same way as employee wages? The question itself may sound like heresy -...

In a case to be argued Tuesday, the justices can't avoid the main issue as they did in the challenge to California's Propositi...

Whenever you disagree with the IRS, procedure is important. ...

Directors and officers are increasingly facing new prospects for shareholder derivative lawsuits related to data breaches. By ...

The Video Privacy Protection Act was enacted when VCRs were still the rage. So courts are grappling with how to apply it in th...