U.S. Supreme Court, Constitutional Law
Supreme Court Preview
Is it time for judicial action on political Gerrymandering? Is baking speech (and does it matter)? Has modern technology outpa...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
9th Circuit Bounds?
Ryan Bounds’ colleague and chair of the 9th Circuit Appellate Lawyer Representatives, James Azadian, discusses the nominee’s c...
Criminal
Assessing algorithm-influenced bail
Bail reform champions argue public safety, more than wealth, should determine defendants' pre-trial release chances; but after...
CAALA Special: Class Delayed
Substantial suits set to shape class action, employment and consumer law jurisprudence await appellate rulings on threshold ju...
Environmental & Energy, Criminal, Constitutional Law, California Supreme Court, Appellate Practice, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Capital Compromise
The California Supreme Court upholds much of Prop 66 but undercuts its central provision requiring death penalty appeals to cu...
U.S. Supreme Court
SCOTUS, by the Numbers
Kedar Bhatia (Greenberg Traurig), curator of SCOTUSBlog’s annual statistical analysis of U.S. Supreme Court terms, visits to r...
U.S. Supreme Court, Constitutional Law, Appellate Practice
A Fourth for the 21st?
Will SCOTUS modernize Fourth Amendment doctrine in 'Carpenter v. U.S.,' involving warrantless searches of modern tech-generate...
Weekly Appellate Report, U.S. Supreme Court, Constitutional Law, Appellate Practice
Evolving First and Second Amendments
Paul Levy (Public Citizen) says the 1DCA should have placed a higher burden on defamation plaintiffs seeking identities of ano...
Weekly Appellate Report, Government, Constitutional Law, Appellate Practice
Arcane Clauses Employed
Guests discuss two lesser-known pieces of federal law gaining prominence in recent suits against the current administration; P...
Labor/Employment, California Supreme Court, Appellate Practice
PAGA prevails; Takings doctrine gets trickier
A unanimous California Supreme Court deems discovery of fellow employee contact information in PAGA claims permissible, as lea...
U.S. Supreme Court, California Supreme Court
Podcast: High Court Highlights
How a split California Supreme Court leaves uncertainty about Prop 36 resentencing discretion, and a unanimous Texas high cour...
Weekly Appellate Report, U.S. Supreme Court, Securities, Immigration, Government, Constitutional Law, Appellate Practice
Podcast: SCOTUS Sum-Up
What's a 'bona fide' relationship? When will SCOTUS opine on public firearm carry? How high is the wall between church and sta...
U.S. Supreme Court, California Supreme Court, Appellate Practice
SCOTUS slaps down California's 'sliding scale' approach to specific personal jurisdiction, explains Blaine Evanson (Gibson Dun...
State Bar & Bar Associations, Law Practice
Legal educators and commentators Frank Wu (UC Hastings) and Stephen Diamond (Santa Clara) revisit Whittier Law School's closur...
Government, Criminal, Constitutional Law, Appellate Practice
This week the state high court debates Prop 66, passed narrowly in November and designed to quicken California's criminal exec...
U.S. Supreme Court, Civil Litigation, California Supreme Court
Does a state provision meant to protect residents from new taxes apply when voters themselves initiate the tax? The California...
Intellectual Property, Government, Constitutional Law, Appellate Practice, Administrative/Regulatory
An en banc D.C. Circuit weighs the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's constitutionality, explains Mike Calhoun (Center for...
Appellate Practice
The 4th Circuit's undoing of North Carolina's post-Shelby County voting laws stands; Prof. Richard Hasen (UCI Law) ex...
Appellate Practice
What's in a Week? SCoCA Decides Day-of-Rest Question
What's in a week? The Cal. Supreme Court clarifies what's demanded of employers by weekly day-of-rest statutes, as Wendy McGui...
Appellate Practice
Net neutrality may meet SCOTUS review, after the D.C. Circuit declines to rehear en banc its approval of the rules. P...
Weekly Appellate Report
Weekly Appellate Report Podcast
Two friends of the Court offer contrasting views on the Cal. Supreme Court personal jurisdiction ruling argued before SCOTUS T...
Appellate Practice
Two friends of the Court offer contrasting views on the Cal. Supreme Court personal jurisdiction ruling argued before SCOTUS T...
Appellate Practice
Professor David Engstrom explains CalPERS v. ANZ Securities, which entails Neil Gorsuch's first day of oral argument ...
Appellate Practice
'Jacks' Asks 'Is it a Tax or Fee?'
Is it a tax or a fee? Adam Hofmann (Hanson Bridgett LLP) explains how the answer in Jacks v. City of Santa Barbara co...
Appellate Practice
Best Appellate Practices
Presiding Justice of the 2nd District Court of Appeal's 6th Division, Arthur Gilbert offers wit and wisdom from his decades on...
Appellate Practice
EDTX Doors Closing to Patent Plaintiffs?
For the first time, Cal. Supreme Court says black market goods have "fair" market value, for purposes of Prop 47 valuation, ex...
Appellate Practice
The Gorsuch confirmation hearings
Vikram Amar (Dean, University of Illinois College of Law) and David Dorsen (Of Counsel, Sedgwick LLP, and author of The Un...
Appellate Practice
'Winters' Applies to Groundwater?
Josh Patashnik (Munger, Tolles & Olson) explains the 9th Circuit's significant determination that Winters rights ...
Appellate Practice
How to Define a Day of Rest?
Luke Wake (NFIB Small Bus. Legal Center) argues why plaintiffs' claims in a pending Cal. Supreme Court employment case stretch...
Appellate Practice
Cal. ESA & Unsettled Admin Law
Tony François (Pacific Legal Foundation) discusses Monday's state high court ruling that clarified procedural elements of the ...