A recent 9th Circuit case addresses federal appellate jurisdiction in the tricky area of voluntary dismissals, write Benjamin ...

Prison inmates who read Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" as part of an outreach class began to recall some of their own gh...

Model trains, toy soldiers -- perhaps the season's tendency toward minitiaturization reveals something deeper. ...

Amid recent reports of political corruption, budget deficits and ineffective financial regulation, the Air Resources Board's i...

The Supreme Court's latest go-round with a case against Philip Morris leaves the laws regarding punitive damages in flux.

The dispute between the Los Angeles city attorney and the city controller might seem like inside baseball, but it is actually ...

Among his many challenges, President-elect Barack Obama should work to ensure access and civil rights protections for the disa...

If it's not broke.

One of President-elect Barack Obama’s first actions must be to change course and to repudiate the Bush administration’s polici...

Careful practitioners should calculate appellate deadlines arising from all possible scenarios or interpretations and file at ...

It remains a legal mystery why church doctrine or authority should ever shade an individual's fundamental right. ...

The appointments of federal judges are what most define a president and represent his most enduring contribution — either good...

Our accumulated economic history of the past half century has subtle, but significant consequences for labels in law.

For those recently or about-to-be released from prison, job opportunities increase the will to resist the temptations — and av...

The Securities and Exchange Commission, the federal agency that regulates corporate transparency, now has provided some transp...

By applying one standard to low-income families, and another to the Republican Party, the 6th Circuit employed an unconscionab...

Two recent cases will make some judges think at least twice before granting an insurer's summary motion, let alone a demurrer.

An upcoming case on the Supreme Court's docket potentially provides the court with the occasion to bring First Amendment law c...

This election's candidates who are trained as lawyers have better used their skills to appropriately define issues and marshal...

Permitting the prosecution to adopt a label that rightfully includes those very "people" charged with deciding the case risks ...

The public trust doctrine, a cornerstone of modern environmental law in California, has been relatively quiescent in recent ye...

The state Supreme Court had an easy opportunity to set a high standard for attorney conduct, and muffed it badly.

Guns and Guantanamo are so last term. Here's what's on the horizon for the U.S. Supreme Court's October 2008 term.

Entirely unregulated markets have resulted in a form of big-government socialism beyond would-be regulators' wildest dreams. T...

The Supreme Court is clearly giving little weight to its oft-stated presumption against finding pre-emption, writes Erwin Chem...

Since over 90 percent of all family law cases eventually settle, there is something to be said for trying to get it right the ...

Forget about criminologists and penologists. In considering how to deal with Sept. 11 conspirators, consult convicts, writes J...

Antonin Scalia's dissent in this year's Guantanamo ruling was disturbing because of its accusation that the majority has harme...

The recent news that George Schiavelli announced he was leaving the district bench,helps illustrate the paradox that, in a tim...

In law, a party that doesn't want the evidence examined has something to hide, Robert Bastian writes. ...