Just over a year after the California Supreme Court handed down the landmark decision, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals a...

Many plaintiffs settle lawsuits or win judgments, but are later surprised that they have to pay taxes. Even those who know tha...

The bill was recently introduced in Congress with the goal of mandating free, public access to federal court electronic record...

Last month, the Supreme Court held that a showing of substantial competitive harm in the event of disclosure is not required f...

Defending World Cup Champion U.S. Women's National Team soccer players have agreed to mediate their gender pay equity lawsuit ...

The reasoning of the majority opinion is so straightforward, it’s hard to imagine disagreement. But disagreement there was.

I had heard the stories about U.S. District Judge Manuel L. Real. A tyrant. Lawless. A dictator in a robe. As a journalist, I ...

Eventually the “Judge Real stories” will fade as memories dim, but when a meltdown occurs in my courtroom, I’ll continue to wo...

As our troops were coming back from the Vietnam war, insurance company lobbyists and special interests groups saw their opport...

In a 7-2 decision written essentially in recognition of the separate sovereign principle in Gamble v. United States, the defen...

While the government is touting Walmart’s $282 million settlement to resolve a seven-year FCPA investigation as a victory, the...

Sorry for the bait-and-switch title, but this article is not about what you probably think it’s going to be about. Rather, we’...

At the height of the Great Depression nearly a quarter of Americans were unemployed. In response, Congress enacted a series of...

As of Monday, California law requires video or audio recordings of a “critical incident” to be disclosed within 45 days of whe...

While the California Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on the de minimis defense readily sniffed out unpaid time of several minu...

The dynamic of states responding to federal action or inaction is continuing to repeatedly play out in areas of interest to or...

In Rucho v. Common Cause, by a 5-4 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court announced what federal courts will do to fix extreme partisan ...

Last week’s Supreme Court decision in Kisor v. Wilkie dramatically rewrote the rules for deference, retaining so-called Auer d...

They profoundly influence our lives. They can be found all over the world. When not fulfilling their mission, they blend in wi...

Starring ace trial lawyer Flash Feinberg and his trusty sidekick Professor Plato

The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision on adding a citizenship question to the upcoming census offers some reassurance that ...

The House Committee on Financial Services recently approved a bill, the Insider Trading Prohibition Act, which creates a statu...

Last month's win for the Federal Trade Commission in FTC v. Qualcomm illuminates an increasingly fractured fault line in this ...

A recent appellate opinion that found an arbitration provision contained in a law firm’s partnership agreement unconscionable ...

In the aftermath a 1971 Supreme Court decision courts have applied issue preclusion to end patent lawsuits. Just a few years a...

Where we left off in part one (June 21) of this series: You have received and digested the communication from the State Bar in...

The California Supreme Court recently said it is timely to submit a request for costs under CCP Section 998 to the arbitrator ...

The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that a state could not tax an out of state resident on trust income without minimum c...

The constitution is silent on presidential absolute immunity. Although presidents routinely invoked the claim of executive pri...

This response provides two clarifications to comments regarding my June 12 article on the 9th Circuit’s recent Title IX ruling.