Along the California coast, we have a case where the rhetoric of property and liberty have met the reality of the California C...

Houses of worship must be kept safe, secure and welcoming for all members and visitors. And we must come together to stand in ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently issued a “Strategic Roadmap” that sets forth the agency’s comprehensive plan...

The majority of federal district courts -- including those in California -- have enacted local rules requiring admission to th...

The federal appellate court recently issued an important ruling that helps clear the way for accountability for the private co...

For several decades now, the federal and California courts have been debating -- blessedly, not to the point of fisticuffs -- ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on October 29 agreed to review a 9th Circuit decision that broadly construed the right of individuals t...

Unfortunately, in recent months a Big Lie about the California Environmental Quality Act has been popping up around California...

The largest U.S. infrastructure-focused budget should include investment in dedicated inpatient facilities for mentally ill an...

To paraphrase “Hamlet,” “Separated, or not separated — that is the question” The date of separation is legally the date of the...

The bill embodies a new, more just approach in which government initiates and completes the process for reducing, dismissing, ...

Congress recently floated a proposal to halve the estate and gift tax exclusion, effective January 1. As of this writing, this...

Beginning next year, a new state securities law will significantly reduce the out-of-pocket cost of raising up to $300,000 in ...

Danny Abir’s recent column unfairly characterizes an organization and individuals with a proven record in expanding access to ...

As Americans question the capacity of their institutions to serve them effectively and people around the world voice doubts ab...

I initially had no interest in accepting the Daily Journal’s request to its subscribers to submit articles either in support o...

The Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System’s pursuit of and support for new legal service models in variou...

If the pandemic has had any kind of benefit, it’s that it has raised awareness of the functions and dysfunctions of our courts...

The Washington Department of Ecology allows public employee union representatives to communicate with workers in the building’...

A pair of 9th Circuit cases will examine what the Constitution requires Congress to do when confronted with the present-day ef...

As wide-ranging as the practice of law is, so too is the range of potential legal malpractice claims. But, at their core, many...

You’ve been arrested and charged with a crime. You’ve been denied pretrial release, and you don’t have the money for bail. So ...

Three recent 9th Circuit rulings held that business income and extra expense losses incurred following business closures order...

There are many ways to answer the question of whether the drug wars are racist, and all of them are “yes.” In California, spec...

I am optimistic that Supreme Court justices who read this column will take my advice and write shorter opinions.

Mexican-Americans faced horrifying discrimination in this country. In her book “All For One & One For All,” author Amy Wat...

A court reporter’s gavel-to-gavel account of a four-month Zoom trial during COVID

A recent appellate court opinion that is now certified for publication resolves some open questions about how membership inte...

The national debate over vaccines for adults and minors is not a novel debate for the law. Court decisions on regulations rega...

After agreeing to settle some 2,600 separate lawsuits over the company’s involvement in fostering the nation’s opioid crisis, ...