The topics likely to get the most attention from Gov. Davis and the media, even as his short list of candidates to replace Jus...
Former President George H.W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act into law on July 26, 1990, declaring, "Let the sh...
Robert Wendland died of pneumonia recently at age 49, eight years after sustaining profound brain damage in an automobile acci...
There is a movie that tells us more about the joy and power of being an attorney than any other movie any lawyer has ever seen...
'Glastetter' demonstrates just how rigorous an analysis must be employed by federal judges evaluating causation issues in tort...
The case clearly holds that liability cannot be imposed on the media simply because others broke the law in obtaining informat...
Law Practice, Judges and Judiciary
America Stands Out for its Judiciary Free of Corruption
By Lawrence Waddington
No society in the world offers its citizenry access to a legal system comparable to that available in the United States. But i...
Appellate decisions of sister states may have preclusive effect if the same parties and issues are involved. ...
Chicken Little decided, on the basis of an acorn propelled by gravity, that the sky was falling. He found a host of credulous ...
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...
Law Practice
Bush's Treatment of the Most Vulnerable Gets Mixed Marks
By David A. Lash
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...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Discipline
Discipline Needs Its Deadlines
By Diane L. Karpman
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...
California Supreme Court
State Supreme Court Properly Upheld Anti-Slum Ordinance
By David A. Lash
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...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Healthy Families Program Awaits Federal Approval
By David A. Lash
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...