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...

A footnote in a recent opinion raises questions about the role of deposition testimony in insurance cases. ...

Last week, proponents of the "Six Californias" initiative submitted signatures to the secretary of state, which may get it on ...

In light of recent state Supreme Court decisions, employers should review existing arbitration agreements to ensure they are i...

In many ways, the criminal justice system has become too punitive. The U.S. has only five percent of the world's population, b...

Insurance company collateral estoppel arguments in a choice-of-law context should be rejected. By Steven E. Knott ...

When an insurers sue to confirm that they owes no coverage, insureds can find themselves litigating on two fronts. ...

Over the last couple of weeks, almost every headline about the recent Scarlett Johansson defamation lawsuit has proclaimed tha...

On a close reading, the decision turns out to be not especially path-breaking, neither really curbing nor expanding the use of...

The pervasiveness of human trafficking in Cambodia is fightening, but the problem also plagues our own backyard. ...

The question of allowing an employee to telecommute becomes substantially more complex if the employee is an individual with a...

The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in McCullen v. Coakley necessitates new legislation across the country to safeguard t...

Fables are not just for children. In Fifth Third Bancorp v. Dudenhoeffer, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that ERISA fiduciarie...

Long before the national media shines its spotlight on a growing injustice, legal aid lawyers likely have already spent years ...

The debate over fracking continues nationwide, but in California there is an increasing focus on one major issue: water supply.

The recent decision in Ayala v. Antelope Valley Newspapers Inc. aside, plaintiffs in independent contractor misclassification ...

Mediators walk a razor-thin line on searching for "the truth" in a dispute; Most are more interested in identifying areas wher...

A recent decision provides authority to request that district courts affirm the reliability of an expert's opinion before admi...

A state Supreme Court decision cast doubt onto the constitutionality of public employees being compelled to pay dues to the un...