In a 6-3 opinion, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a major property rights decision in favor of landowners in a case addressing C...

What happens when lawyers break the unspoken rules of how lawyers are supposed to be lawyers?

“Yes, I am a liberal,” said Justice Louis Brandeis. “I call it Civilization.” Pankaj Mishra’s book “Bland Fanatics” takes us b...

In the future, plaintiffs should expect to see defendants add federal-officer or civil-rights removal grounds to their notices...

In the State Bar’s recent news release admitting errors in the handling of past investigations into Thomas Girardi, not one mi...

There is an old adage that cows run away from a storm while the buffalo charges toward it — and gets through it quicker. Do no...

H&R Block recently filed a cert petition that attempts to persuade the United States Supreme Court to grant review of Cali...

When prices increase at constant and predictable rates, forward commitments made today will match economic conditions when per...

Folks in El Dorado County apparently became concerned that more development projects were being approved than local roads coul...

When the Human Trafficking Institute began publishing an annual data set on human trafficking prosecutions in 2018, there was ...

In March 2018, the state of Mississippi enacted a statute entitled the Gestational Age Act specifically to give the U.S. Supre...

Legal disputes come in all shapes and sizes. And there are almost always tax issues for plaintiffs, defendants, or both. Plain...

California recently passed its June 15 reopening benchmark, leaving employers with unanswered questions regarding their workpl...

Researchers estimate that by 2025, we could see 8 million autonomous vehicles on the road.

It is appropriate to assert that standards make the world go round, especially when considering the impact that standards have...

Under the U.S. Constitution, states “maintain certain attributes of sovereignty, including sovereign immunity.”

As a former long-time federal prosecutor and now a law professor, I had mixed feelings about our newest federal holiday, Junet...

Can you compel arbitration without an arbitration agreement? The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently weighed in with tw...

Earlier this month, the German parliament adopted a new law designed to limit the availability of injunctions in patent infrin...

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Many people might say that cheating on your taxes is the best way to get into serious trouble with the IRS. They would be part...

The opinion permitted the California Legislature to address perceived pension abuses, even if the modification reduces some em...

While many other nations around the world have enacted broad reforms in recent decades to replace criminal sanctions with heal...

The repercussions of Aixtron, Inc. v. Vecco Instruments, Inc., which limited the authority of arbitrators to issue discovery s...

Try a thought experiment with us. Assume that you are approached by a business client whose industry has just experienced its ...

A federal judge’s recent opinion striking down California’s assault weapons ban has gained attention for its contrarian view t...

The court scrutinized the state’s “evidence” submitted at trial to justify the law, found it inadequate, and declared Californ...

A key for California businesses to get an advantage in the highly competive and inceasingly global post-COVID economic era is ...

For the past 15 years, California journalist Garrett Therolf has filed some 40 petitions unsealing juvenile case files reveali...

Although the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act made it harder for patent holders to sue multiple, unrelated defendants for paten...