Plaintiffs filed 4,965 federal ADA Title III lawsuits in just the first six months of 2018, compared to 7,663 for all of 2017.

Society should be contemplating the ethics of genetically engineered human embryos and the risks that it poses to the genetics...

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It didn’t take long for the decision to start claiming victims. Bottle & Barlow, a joint on trendy R Street in Sacramento ...

The 9th Circuit said yes; the 5th Circuit and others said no. Now it is up to the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether punitiv...

Some of the latest discussions about the privacy provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act that yo...

If you stop by family court for an hour, you will see lawyered-up C-suite executives and self-represented day laborers sitting...

In a recent speech, Ajit Pai said that if an ISP was throttling services, everyone would know. Turns out he was right.

The 9th Circuit is functioning fine. Dividing it will cause a host of additional costs and new problems.

It may be the top electric car manufacturer, but Tesla will need more than adrenalized enthusiasm to stay afloat.

It is not surprising that the 3rd District extended public trust protections to groundwater through the "tributaries" approach...

Legislation intended to relieve pressures on the court system could use a little more bite in order to get the job done.

A closer look at a couple new laws that affect law practice.

Something rare is happening in San Francisco — a prosecutor who has been accused of misconduct is being tried by the State Bar...

Barrels of ink have been spilled investigating, eulogizing and variously mourning or lauding the "vanishing trial." But this i...

A move by the IRS and Treasury Department this summer is likely to make it even easier for wealthy individuals to funnel dark ...

A little-known California constitutional provision allows courts to overturn election results due to defamation if the losing ...

A good friend of mine passed away recently: Peter Tannenbaum, my campaign manager. Yep. A few years back, some fellow parents ...

As with so much else in the tax world, it depends. No one likes fines or penalties, but deducting them on your taxes makes the...

In his recent column, Deputy District Attorney Eric Siddall complains that Senate Bill 1437 would not merely “abolish the appl...

When it comes to legal malpractice cases, there's rumor going around that "emotional distress damages" actually exist.

In order to craft an enforceable settlement agreement at mediation, there are a few things to keep in mind.

There is a new kind of risk in California law that affects the way cases should be analyzed, on appeal, in trial, through sett...

Though there is abundant talent floating about in fiction, poetry and memoir, few realize how true this also is of literary cr...

Do members of Congress have standing to sue President Donald Trump for violating the foreign emoluments clause of the Constitu...

Many politicians and activists claim that President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee is anti-labor. But have they read Jud...

The California Coastal Commission's emerging requirements for shoreline development follow a new report predicting accelerated...

Ongoing conversations online could inadvertently create serial meetings.

Last month, the musician Will.i.am lost a five-year battle against the USPTO attempting to register the mark #WILLPOWER in cla...

It is the nature of the analysis supplied by Troester that suggests more is yet to be said about the implications of this prin...