The pop singer’s conservatorship case is a perfect example of why laws that “protect” the right to counsel have too many looph...

In Pakdel v. City and County of San Francisco, the Supreme Court spoke with one voice. Knick v. Township of Scott means what i...

Hats off to Public Counsel's Amanda Pertusati and Paul Hastings' Andy LeGolvan

The majority opinion encourages Congress to amend Section 230 to legally mandate that platforms adopt automated content filter...

Unfortunately, the pop star’s experience is a common one for people with developmental disabilities or mental illness, whose f...

A win in a class action is a win for many. It is not only the members of the class action who are directly part of the settlem...

Every lawyer knows that filing a complaint in court is only the beginning of the litigation process. Like the opening kickoff ...

People living with HIV or AIDS must decide whether, how and when to disclose their positive status. In many states, different ...

While Georgia, Texas and a plethora of other states look to undermine voting rights and further disenfranchise voters, right h...

When the Human Trafficking Institute began publishing an annual data set on human trafficking prosecutions in 2018, there was ...

While many other nations around the world have enacted broad reforms in recent decades to replace criminal sanctions with heal...

A federal judge’s recent opinion striking down California’s assault weapons ban has gained attention for its contrarian view t...

COVID-19 restrictions required adaption in all walks of life, particularly in public forums. The justice system learned to ada...

There once was a time when Angelenos with the misfortune of ending up in a car crash could at the very least count on an offic...

Lately I’ve been thinking about judges searching for anonymity when taking a beating by a “higher” court.

Policymakers are preparing to make decisions before the California constitutional deadline of June 15 to pass the 2021-22 Cali...

Two Army veterans, suffering from physical and mental injuries were discharged with less than honorable characterizations to t...

A unanimous Supreme Court held that if the cops want to get inside your house and take your guns, they’re going to need a warr...

Last November, I was supposed to go home. I had served 17 years in prison for a crime I committed at age 20. I was granted cle...

A recent explosion of social science research documents the collateral consequences of pretrial incarceration, such as the los...

Until recently, individual states led the initial push to comprehensively regulate per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances.

A recent Supreme Court ruling may give oil companies an advantage when it comes to removing climate change lawsuits to federal...

Immediately upon taking office last December, Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón announced several abrupt and controv...

Academics and industry groups on Friday told H. Thomas Byron III, rules committee chief counsel with the Administrative Office...

The recent guilty verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial demonstrates the importance of having a diverse and representative jury. ...

If the pandemic has taught us anything, it’s that high-speed internet is crucial to our daily lives — and that’s unlikely to c...

Three California civil rights enforcement agencies are effectively missing in action when it comes to protecting people with d...

In Caniglia v. Strom, 20-157, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari to decide whether there is a “community caretaker” exc...

The intriguing title of my February column “Revelations” was an intimate look (not exposé) on how appellate opinions are “proc...

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard argument in a case asking whether you have the right to privacy when you make charitab...