In 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court resolved the question of whether there can be liability for implied false certification claims...

An en banc panel of the 9th Circuit recently issued a decision in the latest installment in the long-running legal saga of the...

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Once confidential records of officer involved shootings, uses of force that result in great bodily injury, dishonesty and sexu...

Former California Gov. Jerry Brown signed more than 1,000 new laws that go into effect this year.

Earn MCLE credit learning the basics of California’s new Consumer Privacy Act.

Juliana v. United States presents novel legal theories to compel the federal government to protect present and future generati...

Failing to address liens or reimbursement claims in personal injury cases can have disastrous consequences. Whether you are on...

If voters wish to narrow the sentence reductions of Proposition 57 in a way that does not conflict with its actual text, they ...

President Donald Trump has threatened to exercise emergency lawmaking power to construct a $5.7 billion border wall; many lega...

On Jan. 7, Professor John H. Minan wrote about the future of health care coverage in a column titled, “If ruling stands, milli...

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A recent D.C. Circuit decision marks yet another analytical refocusing of the joint-employer relationship in what has already ...

It’s impossible to discern exactly what’s going on in large part due to a recent law passed by the California Legislature.

Although Dynamex retroactivity is not guaranteed, the likelihood that an exception would be granted is about the same as winni...

Traditionally analyzed under the “totality of the facts,” a recent appellate decision embraced three factors that are “especia...

Whether you represent people injured in accidents or defend these cases, you need to understand your ethical obligations regar...

The House Ways and Means Committee wants access to the tax returns. Trump has said that he will try to block their release. He...

The Supreme Court recently held that the Federal Arbitration Act contains no “wholly groundless” exception to the threshold qu...

It is no longer an “alternative dispute resolution process,” but the primary method of case resolution in civil matters. As su...

While 2018 may not have distinguished itself as a landmark year for cases concerning attorneys as defendants, it did lay the g...

Our country is one created with a system of checks and balances. The Private Attorneys General Act is the most recent incarnat...

Paternity support cases sometimes require a mother to pursue a father living in another state for non-payment of child support...

The California Supreme Court, it should heed its own advice from March 2018 and recognize that clemency “exists to afford reli...

As an individual trained to be an advocate, as I become more mature I have fewer opinions to offer. When I was younger, I used...

It’s true that sometimes appellate opinions can be too long, but actually making them shorter is a complex, nuanced and timely...

With the new year upon us, it seems appropriate to reflect on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ significant cases decided...

The most important characteristic of this U.S. Supreme Court term is the issues that are not being heard. At its conference on...