Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - Judicial review is most important when legislatures enact laws that are overwhelmingly p...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Health Care Crisis Demands Immediate Attention, Change
By David A. Lash
Forum Column By David A. Lash The health care crisis is being played out in our courtrooms and streets, with two recent event...
It has been said that the only things certain are death and taxes. As is evident from my last several columns, I must add "err...
Forum Column - By Mark Pulliam and Brandt Schmidt - In a recent pro-business ruling, the 2nd District Court of Appeal rejected...
Forum Column - By David A. Lash - Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca barely could hold the 50 mm assault weapon in his outstr...
Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - Constitutional rights have little meaning if they are not enforceable. The U.S. Supreme ...
Judges and Judiciary
'Sanchez-Scott' Decision Is Hardly Lapse in Judgment
By Lawrence Waddington
Forum Column - By Lawrence C. Waddington - Against the recommendations of Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, the Senate...
Forum Column - By Franklin R. Garfield - In "Collaborative Divorce Plan Provides Separation Skills" (Forum, April 14), Ron M. ...
Law Practice
Despite Iraq Victory, Bush's Policies Lead America Astray
By Robert L. Bastian Jr.
President Bush arguably made the correct decision to invade Iraq. Nevertheless, his leadership in foreign affairs does not mer...
Forum Column - By Joel A. Davis - A funny thing happened on the way to the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Medical Board...
Judges and Judiciary
Extreme Cuts Will Threaten Access-to-Justice Programs
By David A. Lash
Forum Column - By David A. Lash and Mitchell A. Kamin - Over the past several years, the Judicial Council of California has se...
Civil Litigation
Procedural Rule Shouldn't Bar Meritorious Punitives Claims
By Aashish Y. Desai
While most litigators are familiar with the limitations on jury awards for noneconomic damages in medical-malpractice cases, f...
Like a river, a theme runs through my last several columns. It is the painful but important recognition that judges, like all ...
Forum Column - By Carole E. Handler, Jeffrey A. Tidus and David A. Lash - In Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II, justice...
Corporate
Foreign Business Entities Should Get Acquainted With State Rules
By Debra C. Scheufler
Adviser Column - Foreign Entities - By Debra C. Scheufler - Many foreign business entities, both corporations and limited liab...
Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - Few symbols are so vile as the burning cross. Throughout American history, bigots have u...
Forum Column - By David A. Lash - Mario Cuomo spoke in Los Angeles recently. He said that U.S. foreign policy would be best se...
People have complained. My column is late once again. But what do you expect after my last column, which appeared in March? Yo...
Judges and Judiciary
Nominee Doesn't Deserve Calumny Heaped on Her
Forum Column - By Vilma S. Martinez - As a member of Sen. Barbara Boxer's judicial screening committee during the Clinton admi...
Forum Column - By John C. Eastman - The filibuster being waged by Senate Democrats against one of President George W. Bush's e...
Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - The pending nomination of Carolyn Kuhl to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals raises i...
Forum Column - By Daniel Grunfeld and David A. Lash - It is now time for the opponents of public funding of legal services for...
Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - For a century, the U.S. Supreme Court has held that grossly disproportionate sentences a...
Forum Column - By Richard A. Nixon - I read with interest the article by Miriam A. Krinsky and Robin Meadow, which argued that...
I got another speeding ticket. Damn! - on the Pacific Coast Highway about eight miles north of where I got my previous speedin...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Lawyers Can Apply Trial Skills In Forum of Dispute Resolution
By Lawrence Waddington
The increasing resemblance of arbitration to litigation suggests that lawyers who have mastered courtroom skills can apply the...
Appellate Practice
'Macomber' Highlights Danger In Appealing Fee, Cost Awards
By Benjamin G. Shatz
Focus Column Appellate Law By Kathy M. Banke and Benjamin G. Shatz Isn't appealing from the judgment sufficient to challenge ...
Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - Since Sept. 11, 2001, the Bush administration and the Ashcroft Justice Department have e...
Tax
Taxation of Attorney Fees Will Depend on Issue of Ownership
By Mark L. Van Buskirk, R. Duane Westrup, Donald J. Winkler
Focus Column - Tax Law - By R. Duane Westup, Mark Van Buskirk and Donald J. Winkler - In a contingency case involving a $1 mil...
Forum Column - By David A. Lash - If you are poor, 2003 is shaping up to be a nightmare. A declining economy is about to hit a...