From an all-gender bathroom bill to prohibitions on differing pay scales, 2017 is an action-packed year for employers trying t...

A recent 9th Circuit case admonishes employers to heed the Fair Credit Reporting Act's stringent authorization requirements be...

Under a new state senate bill proposed by Sens. Toni Atkins and Scott Wiener, local agencies would be authorized to accept cas...

A tour bus is manufactured in Indiana, and delivered to a buyer in Las Vegas. While driving from Las Vegas to the Grand Canyon...

Two proposed amendments will encourage judges to impose more non-prison sentences; and reducing offense levels for "first offe...

Trump's short-sighted disavowal of U.S. international climate obligations will sow the seeds of American isolationism that wil...

The executive order signed by President Donald Trump on Friday to restrict immigration from certain Muslim countries violates ...

The signature-gathering efforts of the California Independence Campaign for an unconstitutional "constitutional" amendment all...

Assembly Bill 1687, which would prohibit IMDb from publishing actors' age, raises First Amendment flags. Last week an array of...

LA County Judge Francis Bennett II followed his father into the law and now is on the bench.

San Diego County Judge John Scherling says tech and family cases have things in common.

We should reexamine our priorities when it seems we can't afford enough trained social workers, yet spend plenty on prison gua...

The times they are a-changin' -- especially regarding divorce. As recently as 1964, a messy divorce torpedoed a presidential r...

The famed Beatle is seeking help in the form of a declaratory judgment that his termination under U.S. law of his grants of U....

Contract law has long rejected the proposition that parties to the contract must bear identical — or even similar or proportio...

Learn about the prosecution's duty under Brady, limitations on the duty, what constitutes favorable and material evid...

James Bond wasn't a very good negotiator. With his skills and good looks, he didn't have to be. Whether Trump will be remains ...

In brief oversimplification: In Colorado, certain criminal offenses require payment of money to the state upon conviction — bu...

Girl meets boy. Girl finds out boy has a life-threatening illness. Girl and boy get married. Can girl now sue to recover for h...

Has new Code of Civil Procedure Section 430.41 worked to reduce the number of demurrers that require a decision by trial judge...

On the whole, the commentary about the hire has focused on secondary issues. The real issue is that Holder was retained to hel...

It is not just his own assets. It is appointing major public officials — who properly represent all of us — "the People" — and...

At her hearing, DeVos demonstrated an alarming lack of knowledge and understanding about special education law and other relat...

The starting point is Rule 8.104 of the California Rules of Court. Unless a statute or another rule says otherwise, it provide...

In the waning days of the Obama administration, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services issued major new regulations for hig...

In the waning days of the Obama administration, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services issued major new regulations for hig...

This week Los Angeles joins several other California cities by enacting an ordinance to curb abuses by unscrupulous landlords....

Identifying within a target audience what people believe about themselves and the world, then fulsomely congratulating them fo...

The general concept of ripeness should be no stranger to lawyers. After all, one should bring no case before its time. We are ...

It is difficult to envision a scenario in which the current "waters of the United States" rule survives. The Trump administrat...