Maryland v. King is troubling because it is about searching people to gather evidence for crimes where they are not sus...

An unintended consequence is that the conduct leading up to, during, and following the mediation is entirely unregulated. ...

Former clerks and the law firms that hire them must be aware of rules that preclude these clerks from working on matters that ...

The June 12 article, "Trepidation over health insurance exchanges," by David Deaton and Stephen Sullivan, surprised me.

Significant changes to the federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act go into effect on July 1. Businesses that operate ...

If the goal of reform is to increase innovation and avoid unnecessary litigation, then the focus should be on the use of paten...

As the summer travel season begins, the courts continue to debate whether laptops at the border may be routinely searched with...

Stress not only is related to increased incidence of cancer, but a variety of maladies ranging from strokes and heart attacks ...

The health insurance exchanges established by Obamacare are set to be implemented in a matter of months. Many see California a...

In a nutshell, fail to timely appeal, and your appeal will be dismissed.

Chief Judge Alex Kozinski and Judge Richard Paez question whether California's anti-SLAPP statute even belongs in the federal ...

The decision harbored a dark cloud on the edge of its rosy resolution, and a brand-new decision from the Court of Appeal seize...

You've paid hundreds of dollars for one dinner ticket to the biggest networking event of the year, and you're keenly aware of ...

No matter how one elects to read a recent decision, the case undoubtedly expands the class of potential plaintiffs who may bri...

Among other things, the Monty Hall problem illustrates how, thinking clearly through the rules of a game ahead of time improve...

The Supreme Court would in all likelihood not grant review unless it intended to reconsider the entire question of religious i...

Over the last 20 years, California courts have reached conflicting decisions as to whether an insurer must pay for attorney fe...

With Congress' inability to pass legislation, California and several other states have taken steps to protect employees, inclu...

I checked the 2012 Court Statistics Report. In fiscal year 1993 our Supreme Court depublished 109 cases. God knows what percen...

With only about 5 percent of the world's population, the U.S. has a full 25 percent of its prisoners.

A mediation plan, like a plan of action to build an award winning hot rod, has a number of very specific elements and involves...

Sometimes a media narrative takes off like a bullet train flattening anything in its path, even the truth. Such is the case wi...

Three cases suggest the transformative use analysis is becoming untethered from the basic purposes of copyright law.

When a 2-judge majority rules that no person could reasonably conclude that the plaintiff has a case, they are also saying tha...

The objective of this article is to acquaint readers with common procedural issues in sexual assault cases, including statute ...

A few days ago, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals published an important opinion that provides new guidance on how real pe...

Deciding that their gymnasium was not an adequate venue to hold graduation, a high school in Wisconsin chose to move to a more...

These companies continue to mount losses as judges scrutinize their practices.

Of course, the devil is in the details, and whether and to what extent these general concepts are transformed into actual law ...

The attorney-client privilege ends when there is no longer anyone to hold it. But for California corporations, there is no una...