Although the majority of the U.S. Supreme Court in Bush v. Gore limited its decision to equal protection grounds, it is imposs...

Recently, I was invited to Cuba to do a Web presentation for a joint conference hosted by Cuba's National Union of Cuban Juris...

It's Christmas time. The monthlong ordeal in Florida is behind us. The presidential electors cast their votes without the "fai...

For five long weeks after the Nov. 7 election was - or should have been - concluded, the nation was paralyzed by an unpreceden...

Unlike last year, there are few high-profile cases that touch on highly controversial political issues. ...

It was a bright clear Monday morning at the end of October, and my drive up the coast highway to the court in Ventura was exhi...

The Florida Supreme Court's decision allowing the hand recounts of votes is unquestionably correct.

While attorneys and legislators ponder the issue of class-action abuse and whether the problems are so widespread that reform ...

Access to justice through independent tribunals has been a hallmark of the American system. It ensures that governmental offic...

Misconduct by Los Angeles police officers is nothing new. Although the vast majority of officers are honest and conscientious,...

Trade secrets - whether in the form of a useful formula, a manufacturing process, a machine pattern, a device or a list of cus...

Given the horrific magnitude of all that occurred during the Holocaust era, what ultimate justice can there ever truly be? No ...

By now, no citizen of Los Angeles could have missed the recurring charges, headlined in the press, about the failure to addres...

In order to save the poor from the tragedy of a health care crisis, the catalyst of a catastrophe may be what is required to b...

The U.S. Supreme Court has five new Fourth Amendment cases on its docket. ...

Imagine a prevailing appellant, flushed with victory, returning to the trial court to see justice done on the second go-round....

Hopefully, the California Supreme Court will render it unnecessary to amend Proposition 209 with the words, "We really mean it...

Author and noted former district attorney prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi wrote after the release of findings and 129 recommendati...

In April of 1991, I wrote a goodbye column about my dear friend and colleague Justice Richard Abbe who had just retired from D...

Although it's not a court day, it ill behooves a judge to follow the wedding party to the reception and act like a clown. ...

In Boy Scouts of America v. Dale, 120 S.Ct. 2446 (2000), the U.S. Supreme Court opened the door to greater discrimination base...

Republicans have used their control of the U.S. Senate to defeat, curb and delay President Bill Clinton's judicial appointment...

By James Shankles. The point-counterpoint between Jay Sekulow and Erwin Chemerinsky, "Prayer Policy" (Forum, Aug. 7), on the E...

By David A. Lash. When Congress overwhelmingly passed a repeal of the federal estate tax earlier this summer, the debate over ...

By Erwin Chemerinsky. Simply put, the court held that it violates due process and the Sixth Amendment to convict a person of o...

By Richard A. Nixon. The thrust of the article by Kirk C. Jenkins titled "Design Dilemma: Original Intent Analysis is Impossib...

Do we truly see ourselves as others see us? Do judges, for example, mistake a lawyer's sneer of contempt for a crooked smile? ...

By Erwin Chemerinsky. For almost 40 years under both liberal and conservative Supreme Courts, the law has been clear: Prayer i...

By Richard A. Nixon. The article by William G. Paul, president of the American Bar Association, titled "Diversity in the Legal...

The U.S. Supreme Court completed its term on June 28 by handing down four blockbuster cases: allowing greater government aid t...