The California Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday as to what latitude the state has to revise or reduce public employee p...
Recent attorney disbarments, suspensions, probations, and public reprovals in California.
Judge James Donato (ND CA) and former U.S. Ambassador Jeff Bleich, in the second edition of their semi-regular podcast series,...
Does the Eighth Amendment protect one against excessive fines levied by the state? As SCOTUS mulls this lingering incorporatio...
An expert panel reviews Gov. Brown's final high court selection, Joshua Groban. Justices Arthur Gilbert (2DCA/6) and Therese ...
The California Supreme Court is set to answer an open question in anti-SLAPP jurisprudence: What's an 'issue of public interes...
Amicus filings at the Supreme Court are at record levels, and seem more influential than ever. They're also increasingly submi...
Recent attorney disbarments, suspensions, probations, and public reprovals in California.
Attorneys using judicial avenues to force action on climate change will confront - for the foreseeable future - a firmly conse...
For the first time, SCOTUS' law clerk class is majority female; but that milestone follows a bitter confirmation fight that ce...
The third episode of the DJ on the J.D., the Daily Journal's legal education podcast, features two first-year UCLA School of L...
Adam Feldman, from the blog Empirical SCOTUS, offers a quantitative-based preview of Brett Kavanaugh's first term. And Seth St...
Ellis Horvitz, founder of Horvitz & Levy and pioneer of appellate-focused legal practice, was honored Friday as the inaugu...
Judge James Donato (ND CA) and former U.S. Ambassador Jeff Bleich, on the first of a hopefully ongoing podcast series, provide...
Recent attorney disbarments, suspensions, probations, and public reprovals in California.
As a new Supreme Court term commences, partly overshadowed by a seething political feud surrounding the proposed new ninth jus...
David Kaplan, 'Newsweek' veteran and Supreme Court chronicler, visits to discuss his new book 'The Most Dangerous Branch: Insi...
An en banc 9th Circuit will reconsider whether due process in removal proceedings guarantees undocumented minors government-sp...
The 9th Circuit rejected a Koch Industries-backed charity's claim that requiring disclosure of top donor information violates ...
On the concluding day of confirmation hearings for Judge Brett Kavanaugh, senators heard not from the nominee but rather 26 wi...
Senators sparred over - and throughout the day released - documents Democratic members claimed the majority party had designat...
A tumultuous first day of confirmation hearings for Judge Brett Kavanaugh saw senators spar at length over the adequacy of ava...
Recent attorney disbarments, suspensions, probations, and public reprovals in California.
After successive, sudden departures of Judges Pregerson, Kozinski, and Reinhardt, the 9th Circuit's varying approach to decidi...
While the Weekly Appellate Report is on a brief summer hiatus, revisit an earlier episode exploring the new test California co...
In the second episode of Courts & Capital, we discuss attorneys who fight for the civil rights of...sex offenders. Attorne...
Recent attorney disbarments, suspensions, probations, and public reprovals in California.
A split 9th Circuit panel Tuesday deemed open public firearm carry a "core" Second Amendment right, and struck down a Hawaii p...
The second episode of the DJ on the J.D., the Daily Journal's legal education podcast, focuses on hybrid law degrees. Some law...
Three guests offer a range of views on the potential next U.S. Supreme Court justice, Brett Kavanaugh. Justin Walker (UL Brand...