Animals are classified as property under the law in all 50 states, but changes in divorce statutes are challenging that paradi...

Last week the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review a case involving a Border Patrol shooting at the Mexican border. Its result ...

While the Supreme Court is widely expected to uphold the confidentiality of peace officer personnel records, it is unclear whe...

On Monday, the California Supreme Court held that, notwithstanding defendant’s timely submission of a request for costs under ...

If these cases are upheld on appeal, which seems likely, the House will have breached Trump’s “redline” refusal to turn over h...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed some tweaks to the federal government’s opportunity zone regulations which could lim...

On May 3, the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed numerous changes to the financial disclosure requirements under Regu...

I recently attended a talk by Judge Jeffrey Sutton who sits on the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The subject was a book h...

In response to the growing wildfire danger and liability risks faced by the electric utilities, a variety of wildfire mitigati...

Some California school districts are employing a little-known practice loosely titled, “Recommendation for Reassignment,” to d...

Julian Assange. Bryan Carmody. Each incident is a troubling incursion on First Amendment freedoms. One is a flat-out violation...

With the recent discoveries of multiple purported handwritten wills from the late soul legend Aretha Franklin, what the heirs ...

With the advent of online ancestry tracing, a growing number of "switched sperm" cases are being revealed. Devastatingly, a co...

California’s new Rules of Professional Conduct, effective Nov. 1, 2018, put new two factors at the top of the list of 13 eleme...

Sweeping legislative change is vitally important, necessary and justified to strike a better balance between state and local ...

The California Supreme Court will hear oral argument in ALADS v. Superior Court on June 5. The court must hold that law enforc...

Conventional wisdom holds that there is now a solid pro-business majority on the U.S. Supreme Court. A 5-4 decision on Tuesday...

He was one of the most feared criminal figures of the 1970s and 1980s. Suspected to have committed multiple murders and dozens...

On May 20, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in Ritzen to address the question of whether an order denying a motion fo...

The 9th Circuit recently had the chance to referee a dispute between the rights granted to agricultural labor unions by the Ca...

By any measure, Bill Buckner had a fine career: Over 2,700 base hits, won a batting title with the Cubs, and played for 22 sea...

New York may implement California-style chemical warnings creating bi-coastal complications for businesses big and small.

Lawyers may source money entirely for themselves, clients alone may seek it, or each may get some, depending on how the deal i...

Earlier this month, the California Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision limiting the application of the state’s ubiquitou...

The appeals court recently upheld the right of California union organizers to enter an agricultural employer’s property for th...

The Judicial Council recently floated proposed changes to the rules of appellate filings in the California Supreme Court and c...

In the past few years, private advocacy groups that intervene to defend challenged laws have successfully sought hundreds of t...

The recent outbreaks of childhood diseases all around the nation confirms for me the importance of academic freedom.

It is against the law to text and drive, but what about texting when doing classwork? For many students in California, the day...

If a potential client, or the child of a potential client, faces imminent risk of serious physical harm, the pursuit of a dome...