The discharge and substitution of jurors rests within the sound discretion of the trial court. The decisions are reviewed on a...

A shelf can facilitate several different types of offerings including at-the-market offerings, equity lines of credits, block ...

Where, as here, the underlying factual context can be abstracted as one or four factual contexts, the analysis bends toward th...

Undoubtedly most viewers will leave this film knowing more about the chemistry of perm maintenance than about the first year o...

The Second Appellate District's recent decision in Marina Pacific Hotel & Suites, LLC v. Fireman's Fund Insurance Co., No....

The courts continue to wrestle with the safe harbor defense. There is disagreement whether the safe harbor defense applies to ...

The opinion did not end up being the panacea for defendants that was touted.

The defendant was seated in the dock on the opposite wall, facing the jury. It was like having him in a fishbowl where the jur...

When a local official provokes the ire of fellow members, rather, the only remedy is some form of public reproval. Historicall...

Former California Chief Justice Rose Elizabeth Bird was many things. One thing she was not: recalled.

An earlier - and longer - fire season, drought, a strained grid that needs upgrades, inflation and the war in Ukraine will con...

From the mediator’s perspective, bringing empathy to the mediation process can be a dangerous move, for a variety of reasons.

Even with the release of this transcript, a judge will likely still require Polanski to appear in person to allow for sentenci...

The Internal Revenue Service has been conducting sting operations for as long as we have had an Internal Revenue Service. Stin...

I didn’t fully comprehend that complying with these orders made me complicit in the court’s justice-denial, but conversations ...

History is the core of the decision in Dobbs and that court failed to thoroughly examine it, in contrast to California.

Attorney general of Texas has threatened the law firm of Sidley and Austin with criminal prosecution for paying expenses assoc...

While individual Justices are expected to have their own views on various constitutional issues, our system of government must...

For 50 years, on the issue of abortion and others, the people were controlled by decisions effected by “13 lawyers in robes” r...

A series of battles had led to this critical point – with many more skirmishes yet to come. California’s Rent Control War was ...

Attorney general of Texas has threatened the law firm of Sidley and Austin with criminal prosecution for paying expenses assoc...

Pinpointing the date of separation is a highly fact-based process that requires a court to consider the parties’ expressed int...

When a litigant who has lost in the trial court tells you that a win on appeal is certain, run away. If the litigant tells you...

Abusers have been known to try to interfere with their victims’ use of contraception, access to information, or have used coer...