Health Care & Hospital Law, Government
Lawsuits should not be the first recourse to sound mental health policy and effective programs.
Civil Litigation, Government, Administrative/Regulatory
Coastal Commission says no to Airbnb ban?
The commission was so preoccupied with whether or not it could regulate short-term rentals, it didn't stop to think if it should.
International Law, Government, Constitutional Law, Administrative/Regulatory
CLOUD Act is an about-face on constitutional rights
On March 23, President Donald Trump signed a law that could undo the very protections for privacy and autonomy that American c...
Government, Letters, Judges and Judiciary
Politics and the justice system: oil and water
When any of us fail to “take actions that place the good of society above self-interest,” the public perception of the integri...
Note to valued readers: What appears in the following column is not an April Fools' joke. Please observe that the publication ...
Law Practice, Letters, Government, Judges and Judiciary
To ignore integrity is to attack integrity
As Justice Anthony Kline reminds us, certain developments in recent years have threatened to make it more difficult for courts...
Government, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
If courts allow companies to use the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to block automated access by competitors, it will threaten o...
The widening gap between how the law is expected to be (and generally is) practiced, and certain events transpiring in our pol...
Government, Criminal, Judges and Judiciary
Lawmakers must heed call to make more just bail system
During Monday’s State of the Judiciary address, Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye once again called on California lawmakers...
Does the judicial branch ever tell the political branches of government, "Hold my beer"? The recent efforts to reform Californ...
Judges and Judiciary, Government, Letters
We feel the recent story on Jerry Brown’s judicial picks doesn’t paint an accurate picture of all that the governor has done t...
I am generally pleased to note that the vast majority of the current field of candidates for Los Angeles County Superior Court...
Judges and Judiciary, State Bar & Bar Associations
The California primary election takes place on June 5. The state’s general election follows on Nov. 6. This includes the elect...
For now, unless I have reason not to do so, all incumbent judges have my vote.
Now that it is election season, the legal community once again will turn part of its focus upon the upcoming elections for sup...
U.S. Supreme Court, Criminal, Constitutional Law, California Supreme Court, California Courts of Appeal
A penny for your thoughts
“The only constant is change.” Heraclitus may have been talking about life. But he might as well have been talking about the c...
People clamored onto the courthouse steps in the case of the baker who declined to make a cake for a gay couple’s nuptials — o...
Civil Rights, Government, Judges and Judiciary, Criminal
‘Public defender’ isn’t just another job
The Los Angeles public defender has the potential to be the most influential public defender in the nation — and the office mu...
U.S. Supreme Court, Constitutional Law, Administrative/Regulatory
Drone Searches: A New Frontier for the Fourth Amendment
The use of drones spurs reassessment of time-honored privacy concerns.
Judges and Judiciary, State Bar & Bar Associations
The Golden State should reform unnecessary, out-of-date and overly protectionist bar admission policies in federal district co...
The ruling is the first to hold an internet service provider liable for copyright infringement by its customers, making it a c...
Judges are required to be fair, neutral and impartial and to be perceived as such at all times.
Suffice it to say, when addressing Siri, I did not use the four-letter word, the first letter of which appears toward the last...
A Riverside case involves the right of people with developmental disabilities to marry as well as the right not to be pressure...
U.S. Supreme Court, Constitutional Law, Civil Rights, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Sex work ruling isn’t the end of the line
The Constitution protects an adult’s personal decision to engage in intimate, sexual activity with another adult, whether the ...
Securities, U.S. Supreme Court, Constitutional Law, Administrative/Regulatory
SEC ALJs and the accumulation of power
The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether the Securities and Exchange Commission's use of administrative law judges violates ...
Year in Review Column, U.S. Supreme Court, Environmental & Energy, California Supreme Court, Administrative/Regulatory
Cases provide insight into shifting environmental policy
With the appointments of Scott Pruitt (administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency), Ryan Zinke (secretary of the Int...
Government, Labor/Employment, Corporate, Administrative/Regulatory
The New Parent Leave Act expands access to 12 weeks of job-protected baby bonding leave to qualifying workers who work for emp...
Year in Review Column, Civil Litigation, Judges and Judiciary
New law is driving down motions
The Legislature enacted of Code of Civil Procedure Section 430.41 in 2016, and earlier this month a new set of changes took ef...
Civil Litigation, Civil Rights, Judges and Judiciary
Access to justice for the disabled
Current court rules are vague and flimsy. It is time for the Judicial Council to flex its rulemaking muscles and protect vulne...