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Civil Litigation

The ABCs of UDs

MCLE
May 23, 2016
By William D. Dodson

Earn MCLE credit familiarizing yourself with the most important features of unlawful detainer law. ...


International Law, Family

Although surrogacy, egg donation and egg freezing procedures are common here, these fertility treatments are often illegal, ta...


Entertainment & Sports

UC statement bridges sports and academic success

May 21, 2016
By Donald J. Polden

UC student-athlete policy statement shows commitment to promote academic success among its atheletes. By Donald J. Polden ...


Civil Litigation, Law Practice

Most law schools fail to provide the critical technical and legal e-discovery instruction necessary to prepare their students ...


Government, Administrative/Regulatory

Is FCC trying to expand its own authority?

May 21, 2016
By Eric J. Troutman

The FCC has been systematically working to increase its own power. Brick-by-brick, ruling-by-ruling, it has chipped away at th...


Perspective

A recent Supreme Court ruling reminds that the First Amendment protects not only the right to political expression, but the "r...


U.S. Supreme Court, Constitutional Law

The Supreme Court's answer to a Blaine Amendment challenge could decide the constitutional rights of 1.3 million school-choice...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility

Avoid ethical missteps in negotiation dance

May 20, 2016
By David M. Majchrzak, Heather L. Rosing

Although clients expect their lawyers to get the best possible deal, there are ethical constraints designed to restrict lawyer...


U.S. Supreme Court, Civil Litigation

The cat's paw doctrine: declawing summary judgment

May 20, 2016
By Nathan J. Kowalski, Irma Rodriguez Moisa

Aesop's "Cat's Paw" fable is some 2,700 years old, but its namesake, the cat's paw doctrine, was first applied by California c...


Administrative/Regulatory

The California Senate is considering entirely eliminating the statute of limitations for lawsuits that government prosecutors ...


U.S. Supreme Court

While the Supreme Court in Spokeo was clear that statutory damages are not in and of themselves a substitute for cons...


Entertainment & Sports

With the crowd-funded movie still in development, the less its producers borrow from the authorized works, the more likely the...


Law Practice

Are law firm client lists trade secrets?

May 20, 2016
By Angelique Kaounis

A California-based law firm's suit against former partners for trade secret misappropriation, though thankfully not prevalent,...


Constitutional Law, Civil Rights

The joint letter from the U.S. Justice and Education Departments regarding transgender students marks a huge leap forward in t...


Law Practice

LSAT: essential predictor of law school success?

May 20, 2016
By Thomas F. Guernsey

The University of Arizona shouldn't be punished for experimenting with an alternative to the Law School Admissions Test. By Th...


Administrative/Regulatory

Desert water fight isn't over just yet

May 20, 2016
By Andrew Henderson

If allowed to proceed, the Cadiz water project will supply adequate water to 400,000 Southern California individuals. By Andre...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility

Ethically emerging from the recession

May 20, 2016
By J. Randolph Evans, Shari L. Klevens

New technology, innovation, restructuring and a willingness to consider new solutions to old problems are attorneys' best hope...


Criminal, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

Federal habeas relief gone haywire?

May 19, 2016
By Lawrence Waddington

The governor, attorney general and the state Legislature need to limit 9th Circuit interference in the outcomes of California ...


Labor/Employment

By increasing the requisite degree of proof required of plaintiffs, the California Supreme Court gave an advantage to employer...


A "green bonds" designation can highlight to a municipal issuer's stakeholders that infrastructure work which needs to be done...


Perspective

Patent lawsuits are down, but not out

May 19, 2016
By Karineh Khachatourian

What some are calling a "lull" may be a signal that technology companies are expanding their patent arsenals with better quali...


When a statute of limitations is eliminated, justice evaporates for both the innocent and the victim. By Garrick Byers ...


Meaningful pension reform most likely will require an amendment to the California Constitution. By Chuck Reed ...


In the wake of the announcement of new rules regarding permissible exposure levels, lawsuits were filed in federal courts acro...


Perspective

Law schools should systematically provide first-year law students with individualized feedback in at least one "core" doctrina...


Perspective

Securities crowdfunding rules go live

May 18, 2016
By Glenn Luinenburg

Navigating new crowdfunding laws will be challenging for investors and companies, and each must decide if this new financing v...


Perspective

SB 1253, which reduces nonviolent offenders' sentences, seems to allow the governor to dominate the lawmaking process and redu...


Criminal

Working to reintegrate former prisoners

May 18, 2016
By Monique L. Dixon

The Obama administration has released several policy changes recently that could aid persons returning to communities after a ...


Litigation

E-filing is coming to superior courts

May 18, 2016
By Don Willenburg

The Judicial Council seeks comment on whether state court e-filers should have until close of business day, or midnight, to fi...


U.S. Supreme Court

A tug of war between Congress and the courts

May 18, 2016
By Deborah J. La Fetra

Can Congress deem someone injured? The U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in Spokeo Inc. v. Robins purportedly to ...