Only time will tell if Obama's pledge to take FOIA requests seriously will be successful in the face of an entrenched bureaucr...

The legal issues involved when a charitable donation ends up inadvertently supporting a terrorist organization can get thorny....

It's hard for Californians to understand the gravity of criminal justice issues when the state's prisons are so geographically...

A short story by John Updike reveals a lot about "post-studio Hollywood" — and helping the author on legal issues provided its...

The Ledbetter Act and a recent ruling on worker retaliation give rise to cautious optimism that a pregnancy discrimination cas...

Rather than a "medical miracle," the birth of octuplets is better understood as a symptom of our failing health care system, w...

As the country regains its senses, expect a new economic environment where regulators regulate, inspectors inspect and litigat...

A series of vacation mishaps serves as a lesson on the whimsy of fate. ...

Michael Mukasey's ruling on immigrants' rights to have access to an attorney is squarely at odds with 9th Circuit precedent. ...

In executing a Mexican national before the world court ruled on the matter, the U.S. willingly ignored international law.

IP law has become the mutt of the legal world, with a confusing mix of rules governing copyrights, patents and trademarks.

Logic tells us that trying to out-tough gang members, either on the streets or in the courts, won't rid neighborhoods of viole...

The Supreme Court is set to decide three particularly important cases regarding federalism, writes Erwin Chemerinsky. - Forum ...

In his book "Federal Judges Revealed," William Domnarski explores how political connections and presidential pals can mean eve...

A recent 6th District case reveals that relief may be granted to those harmed by attorney misconduct in appellate cases.

For two years, attorneys for rock superstars Led Zeppelin and the Grateful Dead waged a legal war against a Minnesota entrepre...

A recent 9th Circuit case addresses federal appellate jurisdiction in the tricky area of voluntary dismissals, write Benjamin ...

Prison inmates who read Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" as part of an outreach class began to recall some of their own gh...

Model trains, toy soldiers -- perhaps the season's tendency toward minitiaturization reveals something deeper. ...

Amid recent reports of political corruption, budget deficits and ineffective financial regulation, the Air Resources Board's i...

The Supreme Court's latest go-round with a case against Philip Morris leaves the laws regarding punitive damages in flux.

The dispute between the Los Angeles city attorney and the city controller might seem like inside baseball, but it is actually ...

Among his many challenges, President-elect Barack Obama should work to ensure access and civil rights protections for the disa...

If it's not broke.

One of President-elect Barack Obama’s first actions must be to change course and to repudiate the Bush administration’s polici...

Careful practitioners should calculate appellate deadlines arising from all possible scenarios or interpretations and file at ...

It remains a legal mystery why church doctrine or authority should ever shade an individual's fundamental right. ...

The appointments of federal judges are what most define a president and represent his most enduring contribution — either good...

Our accumulated economic history of the past half century has subtle, but significant consequences for labels in law.

For those recently or about-to-be released from prison, job opportunities increase the will to resist the temptations — and av...