Does the IRS "Taxpayer Bill of Rights" include a right to selectively disclose documents, such as emails? ...

The wage and hour plaintiffs' bar was recently faced with two potentially game-ending blows emanating from the state high court.

Why can Mickey Mouse, Rocky Balboa and Tarzan be copyrighted, but not Sam Spade of "The Maltese Falcon" or Regan from "The Exo...

Everyone is talking about data brokers. All seem to agree that some legislation is needed to regulate this already pervasive b...

Unfortunately, some parties are unsatisfied with the comprehensive system of fracking regulations developed under SB 4. By Jef...

The case may resolve a split between the 9th Circuit and the California Supreme Court as to whether proof of subjective intent...

Some of the perdurable mysteries that make law a jealous mistress abide in terribly mundane places, like ERISA Section 502(a)(3).

A recent decision is the Supreme Court's most explicit endorsement of tribal sovereign immunity in almost two decades. ...

Free speech advocate Julie L. Kessler on why Facebook's definition of acceptable speech has her puzzled. ...

The court has essentially closed the door on future attempts to shoehorn more claims under the seemingly broad term "disparage...

The legal battle over the definition of "all natural" foods is turning its attention from the courtroom to the farmland.

California's consumer protection laws are failing to keep up with the inevitable advances in data management and storage.

Erwin Chemerinsky on how the U.S. high court has made it extremely difficult to successfully sue police for their conduct in h...

A recent signifies the increasing reluctance of the 9th Circuit to consider such claims barred or preempted by considerations ...

A judge should be appointed and should be allowed to remain on the bench as long as he or she appropriately does the job.

Things are looking up for companies and businesses accused of violating Californians' privacy rights by recording telephone ca...

The explosive growth of the state's prison population over the past two decades bolsters the maxim that prison is for those wh...

To effectively address the serious and escalating problem of sexual assaults on college campuses, we must create a culture of ...

In modern day legal transactions, so much of the negotiation is done via Internet, that we may have lost the fine art of a gen...

Over the next five months leading up to the November election in California there will be a lot of myths and false information...

Effective July 11, the FBI will begin to record, by video or audio, interrogations of suspects recently taken into custody. It...

OxyContin and related opioids have become their own vehicle for fatal addiction, an expansion stimulated by irresponsible mark...

Nothing about remedies under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act is well-settled and the U.S. Supreme Court recently d...

Can judicial campaigns play a role in educating voters about our judicial system, or will they remain a pretext to defraud the...

Users are likely unaware that personal wearables are being used to help spearhead the next generation of consumer behavioral s...

Students have every right to exercise their First Amendment by peacefully protesting against their colleges bestowing valuable...

Last week the U.S. Court of Appeal for the Federal Circuit dealt a severe blow to this Joe Doe lawsuit approach to file-sharin...

The RESPECT Act is the recording industry's latest attempt to have its cake and eat it too, applying only the provisions of co...

The Medtronic settlement is yet another in a series of examples of the DOJ's continuing efforts to zero in on health care frau...

In "Scalia: A Court of One," Bruce Allen Murphy, author of three previous Supreme Court biographies, provides the most compreh...