Such funding is unlikely to produce an upsurge of frivolous litigation, though it could produce a wave of law firm startups.

Clearly, the law has not kept pace with inflation. Indeed, in 1975, the median price home in California cost $41,600. Today, t...

As a result of a recent Federal Circuit ruling, there may be implications concerning prefiling commercial activity that practi...

A recent case demonstrates that, sometimes, the law recognizes equity.

Whereas the first two articles looked at the present and the past, respectively, this article looks to the future by asking ho...

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In a recent appellate ruling, the court determined that third parties may benefit from a statutory safe harbor whereby an agre...

Living in the age of cyberhackers, law firms should consider reverting to landline phone calls and paper documents to protect ...

It doesn't matter why the state Supreme Court rejected the rule. What matters is that prosecutors continue to seek convictions...

A state tax court would expedite justice by encouraging out-of-court settlement, a key feature of the federal tax court system.

The U.S Supreme Court gave civil rights plaintiffs an important victory when it ruled that the city of Miami had standing to s...

The Walt Disney Company narrowly held onto future "Pirates of the Caribbean" booty on May 2, to little fanfare.

A California Court of Appeal decision recently injected politics and the country's health care debate into a routine personal ...

This month, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in a closely watched case against a foreign government that raised ques...

If the U.S. Supreme Court defined privacy in terms of what protects our personhood, it would obviate an inquiry into the wheth...

An court has rejected the city of Pasadena's assertion of trail immunity when a child was hit in the head with a golf ball whi...

As a longtime observer of China, a year or perhaps even 100 days ago I would have characterized China as a country that is the...

Any appellate judge will tell you that the standard of review is the first thing they look for in a brief.

What so-called CEQA "reformers" fail to mention is that their proposed changes would severely weaken many of CEQA's key provis...

Actually, there once was such a circuit; let's take a look back to understand its place in history.

A long time ago, in a courtroom far far away, a disturbance in the Fourth Amendment first manifested itself. ...

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The use of private debt collectors has long been controversial, but Congress approved letting the IRS farm out some collections.

We begin where James Comey ended. In his farewell letter, Comey noted that a president can fire an FBI director for any reason...

Last month, "Evicted" received the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction and it is on the New York Times 10 Best Books of...

A narrow exception has been carved that gives sex victims a path to recover the full measure of civil compensation against the...

The pieces are already in place for the government to avoid review of its actions against Muslims -- or anyone else.

California, a national leader in the attempt to create a gateway for minorities into the legal profession, can ill afford to l...

Because Congress did not contemplate secondary liability for copyright infringement on a massive scale, internet service provi...

It's risky business to modify accommodation programs for temporarily disabled employees.