Books are beneficial. They are used as doorstops, paperweights, steps (to reach other books on high shelves), projectiles (to ...

At a time when scandals like Rampart show the need for controlling the police, the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Atwater v....

Los Angeles is about to elect a mayor, only the third in the last 27 years. And though largely ignored by the major news outle...

In April 1999, my firm was brought in as plaintiffs' trial counsel in a construction defect case involving the manufacture, in...

Certain appellate judges have recently changed their writing style. They are removing case citations from the text and putting...

If history is to judge us by how we treat our most vulnerable, including the poor, the children and the elderly, then so too m...

One of the most dramatic changes in the law in recent years has been the U.S. Supreme Court's significant expansion in state s...

As 'Franklin' and 'Natural Resources' make clear, an appeal does not absolutely foreclose further proceedings in the trial cou...

In 1993, the state Legislature passed a bill that would have added a statute of limitations to the State Bar Act. The proposed...

Almost daily I am asked about being a PJ. How does it feel? What does it mean? How are you bearing up under the weight of this...

Arguments against effective anti-poverty programs are often thinly disguised as supposed policy statements. For instance, in "...

President George W. Bush's announcement that he no longer will have the American Bar Association evaluate judicial nominees is...

The first question in litigation against a foreign defendant will be whether service over the defendant abroad was effected pr...

On Feb. 21, the U.S. Supreme Court held that state governments may not be sued for employment discrimination against the disab...

Classwide arbitration has been endorsed by both the California and federal courts. ...

My wife confronted me at breakfast the other morning. "Last night I had a nightmare," she said. "I dreamed I was you." ...

Ultimately, the conflict between the circuits must be resolved by the Supreme Court. But no case to do so is on the docket for...

During the recent presidential campaign, both candidates feared to venture into the controversial waters of children's health ...

The California Department of Corrections is playing three sides of the same coin in its effort to evade financial responsibili...

Power is like an egg white; it so easily slips through your fingers. For me, the attempt to make an egg white omelet brings ho...

Surprise, surprise! The state of Alabama finds itself in the midst of another civil rights battle. And once again, the state o...

Professor Erwin Chemerinsky, in his Daily Journal article ("Righteous Reform," Forum, Nov. 17), discussed what he perceived to...

For decades, the Supreme Court has struggled to delineate when aid to parochial schools is allowed and when it is impermissibl...

Although the majority of the U.S. Supreme Court in Bush v. Gore limited its decision to equal protection grounds, it is imposs...

Recently, I was invited to Cuba to do a Web presentation for a joint conference hosted by Cuba's National Union of Cuban Juris...

It's Christmas time. The monthlong ordeal in Florida is behind us. The presidential electors cast their votes without the "fai...

For five long weeks after the Nov. 7 election was - or should have been - concluded, the nation was paralyzed by an unpreceden...

Unlike last year, there are few high-profile cases that touch on highly controversial political issues. ...

It was a bright clear Monday morning at the end of October, and my drive up the coast highway to the court in Ventura was exhi...

The Florida Supreme Court's decision allowing the hand recounts of votes is unquestionably correct.