There is a bit of nebulousness when it comes to talking about AI and the law. Different experts or pundits seem to refer to th...
Judges and Judiciary, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Q&A: 9th Circuit Judge Kim Wardlaw
By William Domnarski
On the bench now for 26 years, Kim Wardlaw tells us about becoming a federal judge and about life on the 9th Circuit. She also...
U.S. Supreme Court, Government
Justice Thomas: No penchant for pot, but a talent for tax
By Julie A. Werner-Simon
There has been much buzz about the surprising loquaciousness of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in a statement regarding...
A number of years ago, it dawned on me that takings decisions from the U.S. Supreme Court generally seemed to come down in Jun...
Corporate
The intersection of shareholder activism and corporate ESG efforts
By Derek Zaba, Kai Liekefett
Activities of shareholder activists this proxy season at oil and gas companies have been widely reported. The successes of the...
Law Practice, Civil Rights
Spears conservatorship shows need for stronger right to counsel
By Thomas F. Coleman
The pop singer’s conservatorship case is a perfect example of why laws that “protect” the right to counsel have too many looph...
Part of the For the People Act (H.R. 1) would attack the FEC’s problem of not being able to form a quorum.
Appellate folklore -- borne out by statistical reports -- is that at least 3% of all California appeals are dismissed for proc...
Corporate
Challenge to board diversity revived, but to what effect?
By Virginia F. Milstead, Kasonni Scales
To date, no corporation itself has challenged either law. And in March 2021, more than two years after the enactment of SB 826...
A few points about how judges think and operate.
Suppose you have a consumer class action involving thousands, or millions, of consumers who ingested a tainted supplement. How...
U.S. Supreme Court, Constitutional Law
Property rights: the former ‘poor relation’ takes its place at the table
By Deborah J. La Fetra
In Pakdel v. City and County of San Francisco, the Supreme Court spoke with one voice. Knick v. Township of Scott means what i...
Labor/Employment
Mid-year minimum wage increases take effect for some cities
By Christine H. Long
Some California jurisdictions are experiencing increases in their local minimum wages rates, effective this week.
Military Law, Law Practice
Lawyers to the rescue of injured warriors and their caregivers
By Eileen C. Moore
Hats off to Public Counsel's Amanda Pertusati and Paul Hastings' Andy LeGolvan
U.S. Supreme Court, Civil Litigation
High court says ‘concrete’ injury required for Article III standing for class members
By Anna McLean, Michael A. Lundholm
The U.S. Supreme Court in a recent case sided with credit reporting agency TransUnion in ruling that thousands of consumers im...
U.S. Supreme Court, Environmental & Energy
US high court can restore water rights promised to California farmers
By Lowell F. Sutherland
The Supreme Court is considering whether to review a case involving a long-running dispute over water rights in the Imperial V...
Technology, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
9th Circuit panel embraces mandating online filters, censoring users’ speech
By Aaron Mackey
The majority opinion encourages Congress to amend Section 230 to legally mandate that platforms adopt automated content filter...
Law Practice
Spears conservatorship just the tip of the iceberg
By Shannon Cogan, Anne Hadreas
Unfortunately, the pop star’s experience is a common one for people with developmental disabilities or mental illness, whose f...
U.S. Supreme Court, Intellectual Property
High court authorizes PTO director to review PTAB decisions
By Ben M. Davidson
The U.S. Supreme Court held that the administrative patent judges of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, which decides inter pa...
U.S. Supreme Court, Securities
Supreme Court brings clarity to ‘fraud-on-the-market’ theory
By Thomas A. Zaccaro, Scott Carlton
The U.S. Supreme Court recently addressed important substantive and procedural questions for class certification in federal se...
Law Practice, Civil Litigation
Justice in the courtroom. Service in the community.
By Daniel K. Kramer
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...
Technology, Tax
IRS says more cryptocurrency transactions are taxable
By Robert W. Wood
On June 18, the IRS released Chief Counsel Advice 202124008, asking and answering a question: Does an exchange of (i) Bitcoin...
Letters, Law Practice
Service of process: Sacrifice in the name of progress
By Randolph M. Hammock
I read with great interest my colleague Judge Michael Stern’s June 29 column, “Service by process by email: A modest 21st cent...
Labor/Employment
New emergency temporary standards and employer response to vaccine pushback
By Colin Calvert
With the latest emergency temporary standards for vaccinated and unvaccinated employees in the workplace and many employees re...
Technology, Law Practice
Ascertaining if the ambitious no-code trend stacks up for lawyers
By Lance Eliot
Law firms are being beseeched to consider using no-code capabilities, seemingly allowing lawyers and other legal professionals...
Labor/Employment, California Courts of Appeal
Courts look to the ‘central purpose’ of Labor Code Section 226 rather than focusing on technicalities
By David W. Moreshead
Recent decisions suggest that courts are increasingly inclined to take a measured approach to applying the Labor Code’s wage s...
Labor/Employment
If the remote workplace is here to stay, how will that impact employment law?
By Gina Miller
As the world slowly reopens, it has become abundantly clear that many employees are not rushing to get back into the office an...
Labor/Employment
COVID-19 sparks federal, state response with paid leave
By Grant P. Alexander
The COVID-19 pandemic turned the world upside down in numerous respects, leading to various policy and legislative changes to ...
Labor/Employment
Challenges of implementing a global hybrid work mode
By Ute Krudewagen
While studies anticipate that some jurisdictions will embrace partial work from home more heartily than others, there is no de...
The brewing preemption battle over Iskanian’s PAGA rule
By Felix Shafir, Peder K. Batalden
Will the high court address California’s attempt to wall PAGA claims off from FAA preemption?