Until a recent Federal Circuit ruling, the practical application of these duties and burdens in litigation was hotly disputed,...

Set sail on a voyage through the California Rules of Court for civil appeals. The booty: MCLE credit.

Proposed revisions to the Rules of Court would modify the rules for attorneys in conservatorship proceedings.

It’s time for a new standard: Police should be legally required to de-escalate or use alternatives to deadly force whenever po...

Lawsuits should not be the first recourse to sound mental health policy and effective programs.

The commission was so preoccupied with whether or not it could regulate short-term rentals, it didn't stop to think if it should.

On March 23, President Donald Trump signed a law that could undo the very protections for privacy and autonomy that American c...

When any of us fail to “take actions that place the good of society above self-interest,” the public perception of the integri...

Note to valued readers: What appears in the following column is not an April Fools' joke. Please observe that the publication ...

As Justice Anthony Kline reminds us, certain developments in recent years have threatened to make it more difficult for courts...

If courts allow companies to use the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to block automated access by competitors, it will threaten o...

The widening gap between how the law is expected to be (and generally is) practiced, and certain events transpiring in our pol...

During Monday’s State of the Judiciary address, Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye once again called on California lawmakers...

Does the judicial branch ever tell the political branches of government, "Hold my beer"? The recent efforts to reform Californ...

We feel the recent story on Jerry Brown’s judicial picks doesn’t paint an accurate picture of all that the governor has done t...

I am generally pleased to note that the vast majority of the current field of candidates for Los Angeles County Superior Court...

The California primary election takes place on June 5. The state’s general election follows on Nov. 6. This includes the elect...

For now, unless I have reason not to do so, all incumbent judges have my vote.

Now that it is election season, the legal community once again will turn part of its focus upon the upcoming elections for sup...

“The only constant is change.” Heraclitus may have been talking about life. But he might as well have been talking about the c...

People clamored onto the courthouse steps in the case of the baker who declined to make a cake for a gay couple’s nuptials — o...

The Los Angeles public defender has the potential to be the most influential public defender in the nation — and the office mu...

The use of drones spurs reassessment of time-honored privacy concerns.

The Golden State should reform unnecessary, out-of-date and overly protectionist bar admission policies in federal district co...

The ruling is the first to hold an internet service provider liable for copyright infringement by its customers, making it a c...

Judges are required to be fair, neutral and impartial and to be perceived as such at all times.

Suffice it to say, when addressing Siri, I did not use the four-letter word, the first letter of which appears toward the last...

A Riverside case involves the right of people with developmental disabilities to marry as well as the right not to be pressure...

The Constitution protects an adult’s personal decision to engage in intimate, sexual activity with another adult, whether the ...

The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether the Securities and Exchange Commission's use of administrative law judges violates ...