President Donald Trump recently announced plans to eliminate citizenship by birth faces profound legal hurdles.

Among other things, the MMA will affect music-related litigation, both directly and indirectly.

Already the 9th Circuit’s illogical reasoning has resulted in mistrial of a case involving a defendant who allegedly molested ...

In most cases, a property owner’s view is not protected and, accordingly, buyers unwittingly pay a hefty surcharge for somethi...

On Wednesday, the Daily Journal reported on a “split” among plaintiff lawyers over a “proposed PG&E fire settlement.”

When the doors of this fifth principal courthouse opened six decades ago, it was heralded as the "Dream Courthouse" and the "C...

The 9th Circuit recently issued an opinion that gives clarity to public agencies which wish to enact regulations related to si...

Up until the end of 2017, you could claim a tax deduction for your legal fees. In 2018 and thereafter, there is often no deduc...

The U.S. Supreme Court recently opened the door to legalized sports betting, but its future regulatory framework remains a wil...

Why strange? First of all,the property owners won. In itself, that is noteworthy. The second strangeness is that, notwithstand...

The unintended consequences of the law are familiar to learned attorneys. This is not the product of anyone’s fault, but an in...

This is a puzzle addressed by Carol Anderson, in her new and hard-hitting book. Not surprisingly, much of the story of voter s...

The objective of this article and self-study test is to familiarize readers on impeachment of witnesses’ credibility with prio...

Part II: The Art of War

Key Supreme Court decisions involving students’ constitutional rights are thoroughly but briskly covered in Justin Driver’s “T...

These incremental reforms have the potential to make ESA compliance incrementally more efficient and effective for both federa...

California appellate courts have taken a leading role in developing a body of law for public and private colleges and universi...

The State Bar formed a working group to study mandatory malpractice insurance earlier this year, but not many attorneys know w...

For more than 150 years, the Supreme Court has recognized a “separate sovereign exception” to double jeopardy. Justices Ginsbu...

A federal court in Los Angeles just proved that, even after many years of difficult, protracted litigation, and despite severa...

A recent Court of Appeal opinion said the notice-prejudice rule precluded the denial of life insurance benefits based upon the...

In a bankruptcy context, trustees, debtors in possession, and even creditors, may have the ability to pursue recipients of tra...

In the next few weeks, Dewayne Johnson’s lawyers will have to decide whether to accept the judge’s $210 million reduction of t...

Over the years, the State Bar of California has been tasked with ensuring that it does not use its authority disproportionatel...

A Native American treaty rights case up for U.S. Supreme Court review centers on whether an 1855 treaty protects a tribal memb...

As of Jan. 1, 2019, veterans sentenced prior to Jan. 1, 2015 will have an opportunity to go back to court and ask for a senten...

While the Mansfield Rule and Mansfield 2.0 may address some of the concerns about unequal treatment of women in the legal prof...

In a victory for children of same-sex parents and children conceived by parents using assisted reproduction, the California Co...

Before leaving office, Gov. Jerry Brown should take the courageous step of commuting the death sentences of the 743 individual...

Why, after four years of education and training (and after I also received a B.A. from UC Berkeley), passing my third test att...