I am proud to be a part of the civil justice system, and believe the rest of us should be as well. Why? Because it works. ...

Wikimedia's first "Transparency Report" details a copyright takedown request from a photographer who claimed ownership of a se...

We've all encountered the element of surprise that may distract particpants from the task at hand during mediation. The respon...

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On July 30, the House of Representatives passed a resolution that authorized the Speaker of the House to sue President Barack ...

Some 70 percent of Los Angeles can't watch the Dodgers because Time Warner Cable-owned SportsNet LA, will not allow other carr...

Recent changes in the law across the United States seem to have expanded the categorical definition of who is a common carrier...

To most of us, "getting screwed by the IRS" certainly does not mean having sex with an IRS auditor. It also does not mean gett...

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Until recently, in the context of motor carriers/transportation law, it was uncertain whether California's Unfair Competition ...

Stricter regulations for Internet data tracking are imminent. The question is simply how sweeping such regulations will be.

Real property and landlord-tenant occupancy issues arising in the home sharing space will require careful legal maneuvering, a...

Thousands of children fleeing Central America are caught in a legal no-man's land, trapped between the deadly violence in thei...

To repeat what I have often said, we judges and lawyers are storytellers. Every lawsuit, every judicial opinion involves a story.

Even in legal writing, find your own style to create compelling communication. ...

Erwin Chemerinsky is impressed and disturbed by Richard Epstein's The Classic Liberal Constitution. ...

Both on and off the playing fields of professional and collegiate athletics, we are reminded once again this summer that there...

Earlier this year, the 9th Circuit became the first federal appellate court to hold that a blogger enjoyed the same First Amen...

Judge Cormac Carney has started a process that should have been started by the U.S. Supreme Court in a notorious California ca...

The objective of this article and self-study test is to review the principles and recent case authority concerning the Fourth ...

Over the past two decades, online speech issues have forced lawmakers and courts to evaluate First Amendment protections in an...

On July 21, Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law Assembly Bill 2127, which aims to tackle the increasing trend of traumatic brain ...

Consistent with the Internet's evolution, broadband and edge providers should be able to experiment in how best to use their a...

The decisions issued by the U.S. Supreme Court in its most recent term, which ended June 30, should definitively put to rest t...

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Recent white collar enforcement activity by the U.S. Department of Justice and other federal agencies has had a salutary effec...

A lawsuit against R.J. Reynolds recently resulted in an astronomical jury verdict against the tobacco company, but it won't last.

Last week's historic ruling by Judge Cormac J. Carney that California's death penalty system is unconstitutional breathed life...

How do you know what the gravamen of a complaint is for purposes of the anti-SLAPP statute? And are a notice of termination an...