U.S. Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld your constitutional right to privacy of association. On July 1, in a 6-3 opinion in American...
Civil Rights
Cruelty will not solve the ‘homelessness problem’ in LA
According to data from the last Homeless Count in 2020, the city will have to house more than 66,000 people. Now it’s time to ...
Judges and Judiciary
How to drive James Joyce nuts
Just think if James Joyce were writing his magnum opus “Finnegans Wake” today on a computer, auto correct would drive him over...
Government, U.S. Supreme Court
There has been much buzz about the surprising loquaciousness of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in a statement regarding...
Civil Rights, Law Practice
The pop singer’s conservatorship case is a perfect example of why laws that “protect” the right to counsel have too many looph...
Constitutional Law, U.S. Supreme Court
In Pakdel v. City and County of San Francisco, the Supreme Court spoke with one voice. Knick v. Township of Scott means what i...
Law Practice, Military Law
Hats off to Public Counsel's Amanda Pertusati and Paul Hastings' Andy LeGolvan
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Technology
The majority opinion encourages Congress to amend Section 230 to legally mandate that platforms adopt automated content filter...
Unfortunately, the pop star’s experience is a common one for people with developmental disabilities or mental illness, whose f...
Civil Litigation, Law Practice
Justice in the courtroom. Service in the community.
A win in a class action is a win for many. It is not only the members of the class action who are directly part of the settlem...
Civil Litigation, Law Practice
Every lawyer knows that filing a complaint in court is only the beginning of the litigation process. Like the opening kickoff ...
Criminal, Family, Health Care & Hospital Law
People living with HIV or AIDS must decide whether, how and when to disclose their positive status. In many states, different ...
Constitutional Law, Government
While Georgia, Texas and a plethora of other states look to undermine voting rights and further disenfranchise voters, right h...
Criminal
When the Human Trafficking Institute began publishing an annual data set on human trafficking prosecutions in 2018, there was ...
Criminal, Government, Health Care & Hospital Law
While many other nations around the world have enacted broad reforms in recent decades to replace criminal sanctions with heal...
Constitutional Law
Overturning assault weapon ban sets dangerous precedent
A federal judge’s recent opinion striking down California’s assault weapons ban has gained attention for its contrarian view t...
Judges and Judiciary
COVID-19 restrictions required adaption in all walks of life, particularly in public forums. The justice system learned to ada...
Law Practice
There once was a time when Angelenos with the misfortune of ending up in a car crash could at the very least count on an offic...
Law Practice, Judges and Judiciary
Revelations III
Lately I’ve been thinking about judges searching for anonymity when taking a beating by a “higher” court.
Law Practice, Covid Columns, Judges and Judiciary
Policymakers are preparing to make decisions before the California constitutional deadline of June 15 to pass the 2021-22 Cali...
Legal Education, Military Law
Law school clinic helps injured vets
Two Army veterans, suffering from physical and mental injuries were discharged with less than honorable characterizations to t...
Constitutional Law, U.S. Supreme Court
Supreme Court ruling doubles down on property rights
A unanimous Supreme Court held that if the cops want to get inside your house and take your guns, they’re going to need a warr...
Immigration
Last November, I was supposed to go home. I had served 17 years in prison for a crime I committed at age 20. I was granted cle...
Criminal
A recent explosion of social science research documents the collateral consequences of pretrial incarceration, such as the los...
Environmental & Energy
Until recently, individual states led the initial push to comprehensively regulate per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances.
Environmental & Energy, U.S. Supreme Court
A recent Supreme Court ruling may give oil companies an advantage when it comes to removing climate change lawsuits to federal...
Criminal
DA is cherry picking science
Immediately upon taking office last December, Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón announced several abrupt and controv...
Academics and industry groups on Friday told H. Thomas Byron III, rules committee chief counsel with the Administrative Office...
California Supreme Court, Criminal
Racial bias impacts jurors’ death penalty decisions
The recent guilty verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial demonstrates the importance of having a diverse and representative jury. ...
Administrative/Regulatory, Technology
FCC won’t defend net neutrality, but California will
If the pandemic has taught us anything, it’s that high-speed internet is crucial to our daily lives — and that’s unlikely to c...