This bill, signed Oct. 4, added Government Code Section 7285.1 to prohibit an employer (or a person acting on the employer's b...

In late September, we saw the issuance of the proposed framework for tax reform and the release of the IRS Tax Exempt and Gove...

With the appointment of Justice Neil Gorsuch, the stage is now set for Abood to be successfully challenged, and for agency sho...

Lawyers are fond of their doctrines. Wikipedia lists 265 pages of legal doctrines. And that doesn't include exceptions to thos...

Last week, Nissan added its name to a long list of automotive manufacturers who have been ensnared in public controversy over ...

Gov. Jerry Brown recently signed Senate Bill 306, which takes effect on Jan. 1, 2018. This bill amended an existing Labor Code...

California judges presiding over civil trials often restrict jury selection in contravention of the law pertaining to this cri...

In a recent ruling, the 9th Circuit created a rule of federal common law in ERISA cases that follows California's employee-fri...

On Oct. 2, the Daily Journal ran a "Perspectives" piece titled, "Judging is hard (even for the temporary kind)," authored by a...

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Consider the recent case of a Catholic priest for the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Jose. He was sentenced to 36 months in pri...

On Sept. 29, the SEC issued its first civil complaint against two companies and their founder for violating anti-fraud and re...

As Justice Breyer intimated, a Supreme Court decision allowing employer prohibitions on employee class actions would "overturn...

Abraham Lincoln advised attorneys: "Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can." Over a cen...

Senate Bill 33 amends Code of Civil Procedure Section 1281.2 to provide an additional instance when a court can make a determi...

Wouldn't it be nice to have everything one needs to know collected in one place? Enter "Business and Commercial Litigation in...

Increased competition and sluggish demand for legal services has meant that attorneys and law firms are exploring different wa...

Assuming the pen is mightier than the sword, it is my hope that others will respond by doing something to ameliorate the pain ...

Families will always fight, and many of these disputes arise over money. This threat only increases with death, when the origi...

Sometimes a free speech issue is just a speech issue, and not a First Amendment issue. Other times, free speech issues harbor ...

Nine days after Hurricane Irma directly struck the Keys, I was witnessing what would be its worst of many days to come. Homes ...

A federal judge recently held that portions of the city of Newton, Massachusetts's ordinance attempting to regulate unmanned a...

It’s no accident that the leading advocates of increasing barriers to litigation are representatives of industries whose busin...

Contracting parties might agree to a forum selection clause for any number of reasons: to ensure favorable legal precedent, to...

Can an expert rely on hearsay case-specific facts for purposes of reaching an opinion as long as the expert does not relate th...

While some courts held that physical presence in the district is not required, others determined that it is. The Federal Circu...

At oral argument on Monday, counsel for the respondent employees confirmed that if the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the cases b...

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The 9th Circuit's ruling in the recent case challenging San Francisco's sugar-sweetened beverages ordinance could provide a de...

In the final installment of this two-part series, I will discuss several more of the employment-related bills that could soon ...