In the aftermath a 1971 Supreme Court decision courts have applied issue preclusion to end patent lawsuits. Just a few years a...

Where we left off in part one (June 21) of this series: You have received and digested the communication from the State Bar in...

The California Supreme Court recently said it is timely to submit a request for costs under CCP Section 998 to the arbitrator ...

The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that a state could not tax an out of state resident on trust income without minimum c...

The constitution is silent on presidential absolute immunity. Although presidents routinely invoked the claim of executive pri...

This response provides two clarifications to comments regarding my June 12 article on the 9th Circuit’s recent Title IX ruling.

In two of his recent articles, appellate attorney Myron Moskovitz has generously provided us with his valuable insights regard...

A bill in Congress would amend the Age Discrimination in Employment Act to reverse and correct a 2009 U.S. Supreme Court decis...

To save a successful Chapter 11 restructuring from, in the words of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, going “up in smoke,...

Governor Gavin Newsom delivered on his campaign’s promise to invest in California’s children and families in the Budget Act of...

Insurance policies are full of phrases and terms that might have one “ordinary and popular” meaning but a completely different...

As medicine, science, and the law continue to develop, lawsuits for wrongful birth and wrongful life are increasingly being re...

An absolute ban on all uses of all forms of a particular technology is rarely, perhaps even never, appropriate, at least where...

Artificial intelligence is all the rage. We constantly hear about it in one form or another. Automation. Big data. Machine ...

A 9th Circuit panel held that such pleas are involuntary if the government lacked probable cause to prosecute the third party ...

While work on AI-related technology started over 60 years ago, more than half of the nearly 340,000 AI-related patent applicat...

This comes up often when the named employee in a class action doesn’t sign an arbitration agreement, but other employees do.

Math skills are disappearing from the legal profession

Sometimes Supreme Court controversies promising tectonic shifts in constitutional rights and legal doctrines do not turn out t...

That a district court could not ignore or refuse to follow an order by the Federal Communications Commission related to the Te...

Companies seeking to reward employees for their contributions during their employment through the use of equity awards may not...

In 2017, Professor (now Dean) Erwin Chemerinsky’s book, “Closing the Courthouse Door,” was published. The book’s subtitle pres...

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act passed at the end of 2017 doubled the estate and gift tax exemption. With much aplomb, it was announ...

As a law professor, I have realized we need to teach students a skill they by and large lack when they enroll: how to use the ...

I write to make three important corrections, and one clarification, to Howard Miller’s June 13 column, “Tectonic legal plates:...

On June 5, the SEC adopted a package of new rules, amendments and interpretations that addresses the obligations of broker-dea...

Please forgive the levity in the title of this column. Lawyers who litigate constitutional property rights cases have been wai...

When news first broke in March of a brain-damaged man whose injuries stemmed from an attack in the Dodger Stadium parking lot,...

In a 7-2 decision, Supreme Court affirmed this separate sovereign principle in Gamble v. United States

Limited civil cases have special procedural rules, under the rubric “Economic Litigation.” One of these, at Section 98, allows...