Civil Litigation
In a groundbreaking lawsuit, the Mexican government filed suit against eight American gun manufacturers, accusing them of bein...
Government, Constitutional Law
When Washington bureaucrats control the reins of power
Only days after admitting it needed Congress to help extend the eviction moratorium, the Biden administration went and did it ...
Insurance
Time for California to reform insurance requirements
If California is proud of its position as the nation’s progressive bastion, it is absurd that it lets its residents go bankrup...
Law Practice, Judges and Judiciary
What's in a title? Who cares?
Titles can be misleading... even my own
Torts/Personal Injury, Civil Litigation
While technology gurus have praised Tesla’s autopilot feature, the feature has put Tesla in uncharted legal territory. A recen...
Law Practice, Judges and Judiciary
Our nation and our people are strongly but fairly evenly divided. Both sides claim the high ground. Too many of us irrationall...
California Supreme Court
‘Jurassic’ Wisdom
A five-justice majority of the California Supreme Court recently held that appellate courts owed no deference to a trial court...
Civil Rights, California Supreme Court
It is time to approach the officials with ultimate responsibility over legal ethics and the delivery of competent legal servic...
U.S. Supreme Court, Government
In Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee, a six-justice U.S. Supreme Court majority sent a message to the country: If you...
U.S. Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld your constitutional right to privacy of association. On July 1, in a 6-3 opinion in American...
Civil Rights
Cruelty will not solve the ‘homelessness problem’ in LA
According to data from the last Homeless Count in 2020, the city will have to house more than 66,000 people. Now it’s time to ...
Judges and Judiciary
How to drive James Joyce nuts
Just think if James Joyce were writing his magnum opus “Finnegans Wake” today on a computer, auto correct would drive him over...
U.S. Supreme Court, Government
There has been much buzz about the surprising loquaciousness of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in a statement regarding...
Law Practice, Civil Rights
The pop singer’s conservatorship case is a perfect example of why laws that “protect” the right to counsel have too many looph...
U.S. Supreme Court, Constitutional Law
In Pakdel v. City and County of San Francisco, the Supreme Court spoke with one voice. Knick v. Township of Scott means what i...
Military Law, Law Practice
Hats off to Public Counsel's Amanda Pertusati and Paul Hastings' Andy LeGolvan
Technology, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
The majority opinion encourages Congress to amend Section 230 to legally mandate that platforms adopt automated content filter...
Unfortunately, the pop star’s experience is a common one for people with developmental disabilities or mental illness, whose f...
Law Practice, Civil Litigation
Justice in the courtroom. Service in the community.
A win in a class action is a win for many. It is not only the members of the class action who are directly part of the settlem...
Law Practice, Civil Litigation
Every lawyer knows that filing a complaint in court is only the beginning of the litigation process. Like the opening kickoff ...
Health Care & Hospital Law, Family, Criminal
People living with HIV or AIDS must decide whether, how and when to disclose their positive status. In many states, different ...
Government, Constitutional Law
While Georgia, Texas and a plethora of other states look to undermine voting rights and further disenfranchise voters, right h...
Criminal
When the Human Trafficking Institute began publishing an annual data set on human trafficking prosecutions in 2018, there was ...
Health Care & Hospital Law, Government, Criminal
While many other nations around the world have enacted broad reforms in recent decades to replace criminal sanctions with heal...
Constitutional Law
Overturning assault weapon ban sets dangerous precedent
A federal judge’s recent opinion striking down California’s assault weapons ban has gained attention for its contrarian view t...
Judges and Judiciary
COVID-19 restrictions required adaption in all walks of life, particularly in public forums. The justice system learned to ada...
Law Practice
There once was a time when Angelenos with the misfortune of ending up in a car crash could at the very least count on an offic...
Law Practice, Judges and Judiciary
Revelations III
Lately I’ve been thinking about judges searching for anonymity when taking a beating by a “higher” court.
Law Practice, Judges and Judiciary, Covid Columns
Policymakers are preparing to make decisions before the California constitutional deadline of June 15 to pass the 2021-22 Cali...
Military Law, Legal Education
Law school clinic helps injured vets
Two Army veterans, suffering from physical and mental injuries were discharged with less than honorable characterizations to t...