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The LA Sheriff's Department hired dozens of deputies even though background investigations found they had committed serious mi...

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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is seeking to promote the acceptance of more women in the workplace. ...

The NSA deployed undercover spies to create characters and conduct surveillance in online games and virtual worlds such as "Wo...

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California has once again received the dubious distinction of being named our nation's number one "judicial hellhole" by the A...

A recent case is no ordinary denial-of-benefits ERISA case; the court affirmed a precedential damages award based on the theor...

Since October, the 2nd District Court of Appeal has reversed three trial court orders that had denied class certification in t...

The 9th Circuit recently announced that it would begin live video streaming of its en banc proceedings, but this is far too li...

Much has been written since about the so-called "nuclear option" rules change in the Senate. Perhaps not enough has been writt...

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Orly Lobel has written an important book challenging the way we should think about human capital. We ignore her prescriptions ...

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We know how Bob Dylan's poetry has fared in the eyes of lawyers and jurists. But what about the reciprocal view? ...

What the FDA is really saying is that it thinks John and Jane Q. Public are so dense that 23andMe will cause an epidemic of pr...

There has been substantial litigation over what a claim is and when a claim is first made.

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In decades past, before the ubiquity of the disembodied voice, we heard the old-fashioned voice. Remember?

The nature and scope of audits is changing.