How is arbitration working for California employees? The consensus among plaintiffs' lawyers is that it favors employers, cons...

While Nieves v. Bartlett involved an allegation of retaliatory arrest, the 9th Circuit’s approach in such cases is similar to ...

One might assume the home front would carefully guard the parental rights of those who serve or have served in our armed force...

What responsibilities do U.S. public companies have to prevent theft of company funds through cybercrime? Recent Securities an...

We are at an interesting crossroads: Recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions gave employers the green light to use mandatory arbit...

SB 51, which passed by a 35-1 vote on May 21, would allow for the creation of state-chartered cannabis banks or credit unions ...

Recently state and federal courts alike have expanded the interpretation of California law to void not only covenants not to c...

Here at Exceptionally Appealing, we assume that the appellate bar is a cut above the ordinary, and therefore far less likely t...

Sometimes we fail to distinguish between discriminating based on bias on the one hand and being discriminating in the sense of...

The year is 2026. I managed to snag an interview with the president.

Animals are classified as property under the law in all 50 states, but changes in divorce statutes are challenging that paradi...

Last week the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review a case involving a Border Patrol shooting at the Mexican border. Its result ...

While the Supreme Court is widely expected to uphold the confidentiality of peace officer personnel records, it is unclear whe...

On Monday, the California Supreme Court held that, notwithstanding defendant’s timely submission of a request for costs under ...

If these cases are upheld on appeal, which seems likely, the House will have breached Trump’s “redline” refusal to turn over h...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed some tweaks to the federal government’s opportunity zone regulations which could lim...

On May 3, the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed numerous changes to the financial disclosure requirements under Regu...

I recently attended a talk by Judge Jeffrey Sutton who sits on the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The subject was a book h...

In response to the growing wildfire danger and liability risks faced by the electric utilities, a variety of wildfire mitigati...

Some California school districts are employing a little-known practice loosely titled, “Recommendation for Reassignment,” to d...

Julian Assange. Bryan Carmody. Each incident is a troubling incursion on First Amendment freedoms. One is a flat-out violation...

With the recent discoveries of multiple purported handwritten wills from the late soul legend Aretha Franklin, what the heirs ...

With the advent of online ancestry tracing, a growing number of "switched sperm" cases are being revealed. Devastatingly, a co...

California’s new Rules of Professional Conduct, effective Nov. 1, 2018, put new two factors at the top of the list of 13 eleme...

Sweeping legislative change is vitally important, necessary and justified to strike a better balance between state and local ...

The California Supreme Court will hear oral argument in ALADS v. Superior Court on June 5. The court must hold that law enforc...

Conventional wisdom holds that there is now a solid pro-business majority on the U.S. Supreme Court. A 5-4 decision on Tuesday...

He was one of the most feared criminal figures of the 1970s and 1980s. Suspected to have committed multiple murders and dozens...

On May 20, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in Ritzen to address the question of whether an order denying a motion fo...

The 9th Circuit recently had the chance to referee a dispute between the rights granted to agricultural labor unions by the Ca...