Real Estate/Development, Government, Administrative/Regulatory
A watershed moment for rent protections
By CJ Higley, Katy Tang
California is currently in the midst of a watershed moment. An acute awareness and a widespread recognition of a housing affor...
Civil Rights
Establishing comparative fault in a vehicle vs scooter claims
By Annette Mijanovic, Philip McDermott
Learn how to use negligence per se to establish comparative negligence in car versus motorized scooter cases.
Intellectual Property
Federal Circuit decides question of first impression on design patents
By Mark Kachner
In a case of first impression, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently held that the figures contained in a...
Government, Administrative/Regulatory
State Legislature amends key privacy law to take effect in January
By Grant Davis-Denny, Nefi Acosta
On Sept. 13, the California Legislature passed six bills amending the CCPA. Although these amendments still require the govern...
Entertainment & Sports, Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Global soccer promoter looks to score with antitrust suit against FIFA affiliate
By David Scupp
Unfortunately for American sports fans, there will be no reciprocation any time soon from the world's most dominant internatio...
Constitutional Law, Books
Benefitting the strong and disadvantaging the weak
By Marc D. Alexander
Professor Mary Anne Franks, constitutional scholar, member of the American Law Institute, Rhodes Scholar, and author of “The C...
Civil Rights, California Supreme Court
California Supreme Court's moderate approach to arbitration continues
By Glenn A. Danas
The picture painted by defense counsel of recent Supreme Court's decisions in the area of mandatory arbitration is typically o...
Civil Litigation
Out of the frying pan: defendants leap into the fire with their relentless push toward individual arbitrations
By Bryan J. Schwartz
Since at least 2011, when the U.S. Supreme Court decided AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion, seeking to reinvent the 1925 Federal...
The legal standards come from the IRS, Department of Labor, state labor and unemployment laws, workers’ compensation, and more...
State Bar & Bar Associations, Law Practice
New training rules for California conservatorship attorneys
By Thomas F. Coleman
The California Judicial Council is scheduled to adopt new rules requiring conservatorship attorneys to receive education on a ...
Government
Like GDPR, dire predictions about CCPA are likely to be wrong
By Anita Taff-Rice
The first year of the European General Data Privacy Regulation has yielded compliance questions and legal challenges, but the ...
Civil Litigation, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
9th Circuit ensuring federal courts remain open for class action defendants
By Susan Kay Leader, Jonathan P. Slowik
Recent 9th Circuit decisions demonstrate a renewed commitment to eliminating any vestiges of the court’s prior skepticism towa...
Government, Criminal
Private prisons bill unlikely to promote significant change
By Hadar Aviram
The novelty of AB 32 lies in that it forbids the state to contract with private entities not only for the incarceration of dom...
Government, Environmental & Energy
Revoking California’s waiver is contrary to existing law
By Melissa Malstrom, Davina Pujari
Civil Litigation, California Supreme Court
Arbitration unconscionability analysis is revitalized, especially as to unpaid wage claims
By Michael D. Marcus
The California Supreme Court's decision in OTO, LLC v. Kho does not change the standards for determining unconscionability in ...
Civil Litigation, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
9th Circuit permits biometric privacy class action to proceed
By Kevin Jones, Michael T. Zeller
This article examines litigation, as well as legislation, concerning the use and collection of biometric data. It includes a f...
Civil Litigation
Preserving the jury’s role in cases of third-party negligence
By Emanuel B. Townsend
When defendants argue that a special relationship is always required to create liability in cases of third-party negligence or...
U.S. Supreme Court, Government
US Supreme Court appears eager to approve Trump policies
By Erwin Chemerinsky
Twice in the last two months, the court took the unusual step of staying district court orders that enjoined Trump policies t...
Civil Litigation, Intellectual Property
Patagonia survives dismissal in trademark suit based on claims of fame
By Heather A. Antoine, Karine Akopchikyan
As with so many other intellectual property matters, whether a mark is famous will depend on a case by case analysis. For now,...
Administrative/Regulatory
California’s privacy laws are getting tougher, but not Chicago tough… yet
By Monica Baumann
The type of biometric privacy lawsuit filed last month against a Hilton Hotel in Chicago (Case 2019CH09270) is a harbinger of ...
Law Practice
Why is this generation struggling financially to stay afloat, get ahead, and live a life better than their parents?
Criminal, Constitutional Law, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
A warrant to steal?
By Donald M. Falk
Some things are obvious to anyone but a court. Under the Fourth Amendment, all that a warrant permits is a reasonable search a...
Letters, Judges and Judiciary
Retired in 2004, and still ‘signing’ bogus orders
By Wayne L. Peterson
I read with interest the Sept. 11 article, “Professor uncovers nationwide scams involving fake court orders,” regarding bogus ...
U.S. Supreme Court, Immigration, Government, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
The twilight of nationwide injunctions?
By David I. Levine
In Trump v. Hawaii, the 2018 travel ban case, Justice Thomas called nationwide injunctions “legally and historically dubious.”...
Civil Litigation, Labor/Employment, California Supreme Court
PAGA plaintiffs win a battle, but lose the war
By Steven B. Katz
Last week, the California Supreme Court settled a question that has been hotly debated over the past few years: Can employees ...
Labor/Employment
Businesses: prepare for AB 5 to rewrite worker classification law
By James C. Fessenden
Last week, the California Legislature approved a controversial new law that will reshape the way businesses evaluate their rel...
Environmental & Energy
New strategies for addressing major change in water law
By Christina Babbitt
With climate change at our doorstep, our state leaders know we don’t have time to wait until the next drought to create a more...
U.S. Supreme Court, Immigration, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Order is one step closer to eviscerating our asylum system
By Blaine Bookey
Over the last two years, the Trump administration has sought to rewrite longstanding laws and close our doors to asylum seeker...
Environmental & Energy, Administrative/Regulatory
Streamlining Napa’s winery permitting process
By Katherine A. Philippakis
Napa Valley’s wineries are among the most heavily regulated businesses in the world. In addition to the myriad state and feder...
Labor/Employment, Government
DOL may update overtime rate regulations for first time in 50 years
By Peter Brown, Lisa Charbonneau
Since its passage in 1938, courts have struggled to interpret the meaning of “the regular rate” and the correct measure of ove...