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At the height of the Great Depression nearly a quarter of Americans were unemployed. In response, Congress enacted a series of...

As of Monday, California law requires video or audio recordings of a “critical incident” to be disclosed within 45 days of whe...

While the California Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on the de minimis defense readily sniffed out unpaid time of several minu...

The dynamic of states responding to federal action or inaction is continuing to repeatedly play out in areas of interest to or...

In Rucho v. Common Cause, by a 5-4 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court announced what federal courts will do to fix extreme partisan ...

Last week’s Supreme Court decision in Kisor v. Wilkie dramatically rewrote the rules for deference, retaining so-called Auer d...

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Starring ace trial lawyer Flash Feinberg and his trusty sidekick Professor Plato

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The House Committee on Financial Services recently approved a bill, the Insider Trading Prohibition Act, which creates a statu...

Last month's win for the Federal Trade Commission in FTC v. Qualcomm illuminates an increasingly fractured fault line in this ...

A recent appellate opinion that found an arbitration provision contained in a law firm’s partnership agreement unconscionable ...

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...

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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.