On the one hand, why anticipate an argument that your opponent might never make? Why run the risk that the court will be impre...

Judges often decide cases involving arcane subjects in which our knowledge or skill is severely limited. For me, it is the eso...

According to a recent decision, a passenger who engages in reckless "backseat" driving may now be liable as an aider and abett...

Not on same-sex marriage, of course, but in a federal sentencing case that could send shock waves through California penitenti...

Learn about objections to questions considered vague, ambiguous or unintelligible, compound, argumentative, and asked and answ...

For the first time, a Court of Appeal ruling identifies that when a defendant is named later in the case, it is not naturally ...

Both the Senate and the House are working on legislation to rein in patent trolls. Don't be afraid to look at what they're put...

News reports on the "shocking" working conditions in many nail salons may well lead to the next wave of wage and hour class ac...

A class action filed Friday with the DOJ alleges that the court has been failing miserably in fulfilling its duty to provide l...

A recent opinion is a cautionary tale illustrating how a notice of appeal is jurisdictional and that, if the notice is filed t...

Last week, the provided inclusionary housing advocates a major policy and legal victory by unanimously ruling that an afforda...

As I listened to the interviews regarding Dolezal and the pundits of every color pontificating about a woman they don't know, ...

The high court upheld the state of Texas' right to refuse issuing a specialty license plate featuring an image of the Confeder...

On Monday, the U.S. high court said an agricultural program that requires farmers to set aside portions of their crop for the ...

California's new revenge porn law goes into effect July 1. The law will address some of the shortcomings of its predecessors.

Last week, a district court denied Sony Pictures' motion to dismiss as to Article III standing in a case involving a major dat...

If a ruling last week finding an Uber driver to be an employee rather than an independent contractor is a sign of things to co...

Congress has barred review of remand orders, but many federal judges seem to feel differently.

It happens frequently. It is late, and the clouds seem to part in a hotly contested employment mediation. Settlement appears l...

The SEC has increasingly filed actions before its own administrative law judges - where it has a Harlem Globetrotters-like win...

Environmental lawyer Kathryn Oehlschlager provides a user's guide to California's priority system, curtailment, voluntary cutb...

In the wake of a 2014 9th Circuit decision, FedEx has reached a $228 million settlement with drivers who said they were miscla...

The St. Louis Cardinals may catch some chin music after reports that federal law enforcement is investigating whether Cardinal...

Tech companies are increasingly adopting encryption schemes that allow only the sender and the receiver of the communication t...

U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar got it right when he said California must provide sex-reassignment surgery to a prisoner.

It is important to know which considerations can prompt a judge to decide that a line of precedent should have an endpoint.

What exactly does 'constitutional' policing mean, and will it work?

For the first time in American distory, the U.S. Supreme Court recently declared unconstitutional a statute limiting president...

The newly constituted state Supreme Court has given an unmistakable signal that it has moved to the legal left and is a pro-em...

A long-awaited study by the EPA found no evidence that hydraulic fracturing has had widespread, systemic impacts on drinking w...