The Daily Journal reported the summary judgment in favor of the County of Ventura in a purported civil rights case. The articl...

Property insurance policies typically cover the physical losses caused by fires, including damage and destruction of structure...

Some things cannot be unseen. Last term, the U.S. Supreme Court held that judges could -- and, indeed, must -- open their eyes...

In a fascinating case in Connecticut, the police earlier this year arrested a murder suspect based in large part on data colle...

As has been widely reported, President Donald Trump turned his attention to the First Amendment last week in the form of angry...

The 9th Circuit has boldly stepped into the national spotlight on this issue, placing new constitutional restrictions on the s...

In the words of Judge Tallman, a recent 9th Circuit "decision further lacerates the Second Amendment, deepens the wound, and r...

Donald Trump is not the first U.S. president who ran his own business, nor is he the first to run a business into the ground.

Gov. Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 168 last week, adding Section 432.3 to the California Labor Code primarily to preclude t...

The briefs have been filed and the arguments heard in Gill v. Whitford, the blockbuster partisan gerrymandering case now befor...

In my last column, I discussed Judge Posner's "realist" approach to judging, contrasting it with the "formalist" approach. Now...

Many law firms today are facing the relatively new reality that growth will depend, at least in part, on bringing in talented ...

During the last week, wildfires have devastated vast areas of California. While the fires have caused massive property loss, t...

Gov. Jerry Brown recently signed a long-anticipated package of 15 housing-related bills. These bills, signed Sept. 29, constit...

Ultimately, music is finite, and the repetition of themes, genres and even note sequences is inevitable. Courts need to "unblu...

Justice Thomas' approach in his Varsity v. Star Athletica opinion transforms copyright applications for the designs of useful ...

You know these words, phrases and constructions that would never be found in writing outside the law. They're used to make thi...

As high as the current gun-related crime rates are today, they were significantly worse before California passed strict gun la...

The U.S. Supreme Court started its 2017 term last week and quickly waded into the hot-button issue of immigration. The case at...

This bill, signed Oct. 4, added Government Code Section 7285.1 to prohibit an employer (or a person acting on the employer's b...

In late September, we saw the issuance of the proposed framework for tax reform and the release of the IRS Tax Exempt and Gove...

With the appointment of Justice Neil Gorsuch, the stage is now set for Abood to be successfully challenged, and for agency sho...

Lawyers are fond of their doctrines. Wikipedia lists 265 pages of legal doctrines. And that doesn't include exceptions to thos...

Last week, Nissan added its name to a long list of automotive manufacturers who have been ensnared in public controversy over ...

Gov. Jerry Brown recently signed Senate Bill 306, which takes effect on Jan. 1, 2018. This bill amended an existing Labor Code...

California judges presiding over civil trials often restrict jury selection in contravention of the law pertaining to this cri...

In a recent ruling, the 9th Circuit created a rule of federal common law in ERISA cases that follows California's employee-fri...

On Oct. 2, the Daily Journal ran a "Perspectives" piece titled, "Judging is hard (even for the temporary kind)," authored by a...

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