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Tax, Labor/Employment, Health Care & Hospital Law

Like so much else related to COVID-19, vaccines have long been politicized, and that doesn’t seem likely to change anytime soo...


Environmental & Energy, Administrative/Regulatory

EPA outlines key PFAS regulatory developments on the horizon

Nov. 22, 2021
By Patrick F. Veasy, Madeline Weissman

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently issued a “Strategic Roadmap” that sets forth the agency’s comprehensive plan...


Education Law, Criminal

It is imperative that schools fairly and thoroughly investigate all allegations of sexual assault, wherever they occur on camp...


Letters, Law Practice, Consumer Law

If past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior, then Californians will veto the latest attempt by a cabal of deep-p...


U.S. Supreme Court, State Bar & Bar Associations, Law Practice

Discord in our district courts

Nov. 19, 2021
By Julian Sarkar

The majority of federal district courts -- including those in California -- have enacted local rules requiring admission to th...


State Bar & Bar Associations, Law Practice

Not so fast on California paralawyers

Nov. 19, 2021
By Brandon V. Stracener, David A. Carrillo

This isn’t a “don’t fix it if it ain’t broke” scenario — it’s more don’t make a bad situation worse.


Technology, Data Privacy, Civil Litigation, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

The federal appellate court recently issued an important ruling that helps clear the way for accountability for the private co...


Technology, Government, Administrative/Regulatory

Net neutrality: the next chapter

Nov. 19, 2021
By Bennett L. Ross

With Democrats poised to hold a majority of the seats on the Federal Communications Commission, the agency is almost certain t...


Family

Rethinking move-away orders in the time of COVID-19

MCLE
Nov. 19, 2021
By Noreen M. Evans, Deirdre T. Kingsbury

How should parents and courts approach a move-away case in the time of COVID?


Alternative Dispute Resolution

The physics of family law mediation

Nov. 19, 2021
By Scott M. Gordon

Newton’s laws of motion have been applied to fields as diverse as professional football and NASA’s spaceflights. They also hav...


U.S. Supreme Court, Letters

Kris Whitten basically argues that the U.S. Supreme Court was designed to be populated by justices who lack the character and ...


Criminal

On November 2, Michel and Ellen Shane attended the first parole hearing of the man who intentionally and deliberately murdered...


Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Civil Litigation

By this time next year, following the November 8, 2022, midterm election, we should know whether the California Changes to Med...


Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Data Privacy

James Bond, the dashing and impossibly clever spy, always bested the bad guys thanks to the deep pockets of technology and int...


U.S. Supreme Court, Constitutional Law

Criticism of U.S. Supreme Court justices who are identified in the media as “conservative” proceeds apace and seems to have re...


U.S. Supreme Court, Constitutional Law, Civil Litigation, California Supreme Court

Crawford today: Tasting great or less filling?

Nov. 17, 2021
By Brian M. Hoffstadt

For several decades now, the federal and California courts have been debating -- blessedly, not to the point of fisticuffs -- ...


Letters, Criminal

Kathleen Cady's predictive judgments conclude that Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón is not committed to public safety.


Law Practice, Civil Litigation, Appellate Practice

Navigating civil posttrial motions and the path to appeal in state court

MCLE
Nov. 17, 2021
By Paul R. Johnson, Jocelyn Sperling

The trial does not go well, so it is time to consider posttrial motions and an appeal. Posttrial motions can be tricky, given ...


Civil Litigation, Antitrust & Trade Reg.

How to evaluate defense arguments that a proposed class includes uninjured class members is a question federal courts have bee...


Civil Litigation, Antitrust & Trade Reg.

On September 29, the appellate court vacated a district court’s order certifying a nationwide class of up to 250 million indir...


Government, Antitrust & Trade Reg.

Federal government enhances focus on labor in antitrust reform

Nov. 17, 2021
By David Pearl, Neelesh Moorthy

Interest in antitrust reform continues to run high in the federal government, with the focus most recently on the intersection...


Education Law, Administrative/Regulatory

FTC sends notices warning for-profit education institutions

Nov. 17, 2021
By Michelle Hon Donovan, Jonathan Helwink

The Federal Trade Commission recently announced that it was providing notice that certain marketing activities in the for-prof...


Insurance, Health Care & Hospital Law

One of the primary causes of the pricing and payment issues: unfunded and underfunded government mandates and programs — chief...


Securities, Corporate, Administrative/Regulatory

A guide to SEC’s sample letter to companies on ESG disclosures

Nov. 17, 2021
By Raymond Marshall, Matthew Lin

Environmental, social and governance factors have pushed to the forefront of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s attentio...


U.S. Supreme Court, Constitutional Law, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

The U.S. Supreme Court on October 29 agreed to review a 9th Circuit decision that broadly construed the right of individuals t...


Land Use, Government, Constitutional Law

Senator Ben Allen introduced SCA 2 in December 2020 after the State Assembly failed to vote on the identical bill, Senate Cons...


Tax, Government

Build Back Better includes tax provisions

Nov. 16, 2021
By Phil Jelsma

On October 28, the Biden administration released the text of the $1.75 trillion Build Back Better Act — also referred to as th...


Health Care & Hospital Law, Government, Constitutional Law

Vaccine mandates are constitutional

Nov. 16, 2021
By Erwin Chemerinsky

In light of a split among the federal circuit courts of appeals, the U.S. Supreme Court likely will soon need to rule on the c...


Technology, Criminal

Last week, during the closing stages of the Wisconsin trial of defendant Kyle Rittenhouse, a legal debate ensued over an attem...


Judges and Judiciary, Ethics/Professional Responsibility

The Courthouse Ethics and Transparency Act is a bipartisan bill -- an all-too-uncommon phenomenon in today's political environ...