Since at least 2011, when the U.S. Supreme Court decided AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion, seeking to reinvent the 1925 Federal...

The legal standards come from the IRS, Department of Labor, state labor and unemployment laws, workers’ compensation, and more...

The California Judicial Council is scheduled to adopt new rules requiring conservatorship attorneys to receive education on a ...

The first year of the European General Data Privacy Regulation has yielded compliance questions and legal challenges, but the ...

Recent 9th Circuit decisions demonstrate a renewed commitment to eliminating any vestiges of the court’s prior skepticism towa...

The novelty of AB 32 lies in that it forbids the state to contract with private entities not only for the incarceration of dom...

The California Supreme Court's decision in OTO, LLC v. Kho does not change the standards for determining unconscionability in ...

This article examines litigation, as well as legislation, concerning the use and collection of biometric data. It includes a f...

When defendants argue that a special relationship is always required to create liability in cases of third-party negligence or...

Twice in the last two months, the court took the unusual step of staying district court orders that enjoined Trump policies t...

As with so many other intellectual property matters, whether a mark is famous will depend on a case by case analysis. For now,...

The type of biometric privacy lawsuit filed last month against a Hilton Hotel in Chicago (Case 2019CH09270) is a harbinger of ...

Why is this generation struggling financially to stay afloat, get ahead, and live a life better than their parents?

Some things are obvious to anyone but a court. Under the Fourth Amendment, all that a warrant permits is a reasonable search a...

I read with interest the Sept. 11 article, “Professor uncovers nationwide scams involving fake court orders,” regarding bogus ...

In Trump v. Hawaii, the 2018 travel ban case, Justice Thomas called nationwide injunctions “legally and historically dubious.”...

Last week, the California Supreme Court settled a question that has been hotly debated over the past few years: Can employees ...

Last week, the California Legislature approved a controversial new law that will reshape the way businesses evaluate their rel...

With climate change at our doorstep, our state leaders know we don’t have time to wait until the next drought to create a more...

Over the last two years, the Trump administration has sought to rewrite longstanding laws and close our doors to asylum seeker...

Napa Valley’s wineries are among the most heavily regulated businesses in the world. In addition to the myriad state and feder...

Since its passage in 1938, courts have struggled to interpret the meaning of “the regular rate” and the correct measure of ove...

So you just were served with a demand for production of documents. How do you respond?

If signed into law, AB 51 will make it a misdemeanor for “a person” to require any applicant or employee to, “as a condition o...

Sadly, LGBTQ partners and spouses “fall victim to domestic violence at equal or even higher rates compared to their heterosexu...

The issue of this article is whether rulings of the batte din applying Jewish law can be confirmed without violating modern la...

Predictably, most of the movement seems to be directed to tax-free states like Texas, Florida, Washington or Nevada. But Puert...

The dictionary provides two generally accepted meanings to the word “publish.” It means “put into a book.” And it means “made ...

After a recent ruling, presumably, it’s back to the drawing board at the White House to devise clearer standards that meet pro...