Few issues are as divisive or as important as whether universities may use race as a factor in admission decisions to enhance ...

For parents, this is a very scary and confusing time. As vulnerable as everyone has been made to feel, vulnerability is height...

A careful examination of the court's work reveals a number of patterns that are likely to have significance for attorneys in a...

I hold footnotes in contempt. My colleague Judge Learned Foote loves footnotes. Resting his heels on a footstool, he remarked ...

The topics likely to get the most attention from Gov. Davis and the media, even as his short list of candidates to replace Jus...

Former President George H.W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act into law on July 26, 1990, declaring, "Let the sh...

Robert Wendland died of pneumonia recently at age 49, eight years after sustaining profound brain damage in an automobile acci...

There is a movie that tells us more about the joy and power of being an attorney than any other movie any lawyer has ever seen...

'Glastetter' demonstrates just how rigorous an analysis must be employed by federal judges evaluating causation issues in tort...

The case clearly holds that liability cannot be imposed on the media simply because others broke the law in obtaining informat...

No society in the world offers its citizenry access to a legal system comparable to that available in the United States. But i...

Appellate decisions of sister states may have preclusive effect if the same parties and issues are involved. ...

Chicken Little decided, on the basis of an acorn propelled by gravity, that the sky was falling. He found a host of credulous ...

Books are beneficial. They are used as doorstops, paperweights, steps (to reach other books on high shelves), projectiles (to ...

At a time when scandals like Rampart show the need for controlling the police, the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Atwater v....

Los Angeles is about to elect a mayor, only the third in the last 27 years. And though largely ignored by the major news outle...

In April 1999, my firm was brought in as plaintiffs' trial counsel in a construction defect case involving the manufacture, in...

Certain appellate judges have recently changed their writing style. They are removing case citations from the text and putting...

If history is to judge us by how we treat our most vulnerable, including the poor, the children and the elderly, then so too m...

One of the most dramatic changes in the law in recent years has been the U.S. Supreme Court's significant expansion in state s...

As 'Franklin' and 'Natural Resources' make clear, an appeal does not absolutely foreclose further proceedings in the trial cou...

In 1993, the state Legislature passed a bill that would have added a statute of limitations to the State Bar Act. The proposed...

Almost daily I am asked about being a PJ. How does it feel? What does it mean? How are you bearing up under the weight of this...

Arguments against effective anti-poverty programs are often thinly disguised as supposed policy statements. For instance, in "...

President George W. Bush's announcement that he no longer will have the American Bar Association evaluate judicial nominees is...

The first question in litigation against a foreign defendant will be whether service over the defendant abroad was effected pr...

On Feb. 21, the U.S. Supreme Court held that state governments may not be sued for employment discrimination against the disab...

Classwide arbitration has been endorsed by both the California and federal courts. ...

My wife confronted me at breakfast the other morning. "Last night I had a nightmare," she said. "I dreamed I was you." ...

Ultimately, the conflict between the circuits must be resolved by the Supreme Court. But no case to do so is on the docket for...