President Trump issued an executive memorandum last month to allow payroll tax deferral for employees in response to the ongoi...
Covid Columns, Covid Court Ops, Law Practice, Criminal
Upon learning that my client and I were going to be part of the first post-pandemic jury trial in San Francisco, I was nervous...
Law Practice, Civil Rights
Mallika speaks to a critical race theorist and feminist legal scholar about challenging homogeneity of the profession and acad...
Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
It is no secret that in 1776, when the Founding Fathers wrote the preamble to the U.S. Constitution, “We the People” did not i...
In the military, Jackie Robinson took a stand within a racist system
Constitutional Law, Government
President Donald Trump’s constant attacks on the judiciary are a violation of the separation of powers set out in the U.S. Con...
A just society holds people accountable for what they do; it does not punish them for what they look like or where they may ha...
The constitutional due process implications of giving prosecutors discretion to investigate and charge women for engaging in a...
Insurance, Civil Litigation
Do all-risk business property insurance policies cover losses related to COVID-19? A recent decision out of the Western Distri...
Entertainment & Sports, Civil Litigation
While some have been enjoying the return of baseball, albeit without fans in the stands, the Oakland A’s are moving forward w...
Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
It took 70 years of advocacy for the 19th Amendment to pass, and it has taken a hundred more for the Equal Rights Amendment to...
Labor/Employment, Entertainment & Sports, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Who’s watching Hollywood’s gatekeepers?
Ruling in Judd v. Weinstein will help address sexual harassment in non-employment, professional contexts
Supposedly, women have equal employment opportunities within our nation’s armed forces. But to avail themselves of those oppor...
Intellectual Property, Entertainment & Sports, Civil Litigation
Young v Trump 2020: No more Rockin’ In The Free World
Neil Young recently filed a lawsuit against Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. for copyright infringement over use of his son...
Criminal, California Supreme Court
When the system erred, it consistently showed that Black defendants were predicted to be higher risk, while white defendants w...
I had dinner the other evening with the philosopher Heraclitus of Ephesus. I remarked that Justice Ming Chin was retiring from...
U.S. Supreme Court, Constitutional Law
Four U.S. Supreme Court cases from last term, coupled with the news that the Catholic Church received $1.4 billion in COVID-19...
Here are some pointers on how to avoid putting a foot in your mouth when the judge says, “Cross-examination, please.”
U.S. Supreme Court, Health Care & Hospital Law, Civil Rights
On July 8, the Supreme Court issued a blow to the ongoing fight for birth control access. The case in question involved a rule...
In part overshadowed by fears of COVID-19, the homelessness situation in Los Angeles and beyond is far from easing up. Once t...
Courts must fulfill statutory duties while safeguarding the well-being of the public they serve. Some courts in California are...
Legal Education, Law Practice
A conversation with international human rights expert and UC Hastings Professor, on writing about traumatic events to trauma-c...
Law Practice, Constitutional Law
As a public interest legal organization, Pacific Legal Foundation litigates in multiple ways: Primarily, we initiate, defend a...
As fiduciaries, trustees are typically guided by the responsibilities and obligations imposed on them under the law and/or pur...
Law Practice, Immigration
A discussion with a Fresno-based immigration lawyer on the importance of giving clients more control and on the imperative of ...
This is a good time to re-read — or for some to pick up for the first time — materials on implicit bias, and in particular how...
The asylum system is under attack. Over the past few years, we have seen policy after policy, fueled by racism and xenophobia,...
For nine years, I ran over to the local Veterans Treatment Court, VTC, on Tuesday afternoons to act as a mentor, primarily to ...
It’s all different. More so than any of us can remember. Lesson we all know, but many have stored in the back of a mental clos...
The COVID-19 pandemic and the recent civil unrest are having a disproportionate effect on people in California's low-income co...