By Rex Heeseman - A Los Angeles trial judge tries to make sense of appellate courts' review of the use of multipliers in punit...

The Supreme Court ruling on the EPA's power and duty to address global warming likely will affect all three branches of govern...

Forum Column - By Stephen Rohde - In a speech 40 years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. broke his silence on the subject and de...

Focus Column - By James C. Martin and David J. de Jesus - There's no better way to aggravate opposing counsel than by putting ...

An appellate judge continues his meditation on the vagaries of memory and finally resolves which concert pianist ripped apart ...

Forum Column - By Rory K. Little - The result of the imbroglio over the dismissal of eight U.S. attorneys should be to further...

Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in the Philip Morris punitive-damages case is a...

The Supreme Court recently decided a major punitive-damages case, but many questions remain. A Superior Court judge helps unra...

The jails are unsuited to be large-scale mental health providers, but that's what they are, writes a public defender. ...

Three African-American women -- a lawyer, a state judge and a federal judge -- shoud be honored for achieving milestones in Ca...

Focus Column - By Benjamin G. Shatz and Christopher D. LeGras - Two appellate specialists give useful guidance on what to do ...

Forum Column - By Stephen F. Rohde - By upholding the portions of the Military Commission Act that revoke habeas corpus for Gu...

The distinction between fact and law is both theoretical and very real. Judges decide the law, and people figure out the facts...

FORUM COLUMN - By Erwin Chemerinsky - The Bush administration continues to violate the Constitution in Guantanamo and is misus...

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge unravels the constitutional complexities of limits on punitive-damages awards. ...

Let's see . . . Gang members are stuck in jail for years, where their gangs' influence is consolidated and enhanced. Something...

FOCUS COLUMN - By Rex Heeseman - insurance policy interpretation, this time taking an expansive view of coverage. ...

Now wait a minute . . . Didn't we meet back in Prague? And who was that pianist who tore his instrument apart on stage? Justic...

FORUM COLUMN - By Erwin Chemerinsky - The recent news about Chief Justice William Rehnquist's drug addiction raises questions ...

FORUM COLUMN - By Erwin Chemerinsky - American public schools are increasingly racially segregated. A study by Harvard Profess...

FOCUS COLUMN - By Paul D. Fogel and David J. de Jesus - The verboten is about to be no more. After years of extensive debate, ...

FORUM COLUMN - By Mark C. Mazzarella and Wendy Patrick Mazzarella - Okay, we admit it. We watched the movie "Legally Blonde" w...

FOCUS COLUMN - By Franklin R. Garfield - Standard provisions, often referred to as boilerplate, are an important component of ...

FORUM COLUMN - By David A. Lash - Belief that a woman has the right to choose to have an abortion on demand, or belief that ab...

FORUM COLUMN - By Mark C. Mazzarella and Wendy Patrick Mazzarella - Storytelling, it dates back to the time when man first for...

'I was nervous and upset." These were the words you coached your client to say before the no-fault divorce law was enacted. ...

Mark Foley's revelation that he was sexually abused as a minor confirms what many have recognized for years: Adult sexual offe...

FORUM COLUMN - By Erwin Chemerinsky - The Navy's choice to force out Lt. Comdr. Charles Swift, one of the lawyers who successf...

Yesterday, I got a flu shot. No one made me get it. I did it on my own. ...

FOCUS COLUMN - By James C. Martin and David J. de Jesus - Once a case reaches the appellate stage, practitioners easily focus ...