Under Article 2 of the Constitution, the Senate is supposed to "advise and consent" to the nomination of Judge Merrick Garland...

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Limited merits reviews by the California Supreme Court might deter less than careful work by the Court of Appeal, as well incr...

Superior Court Commissioner, San Diego County (San Diego) ...

In this era of President Donald Trump — rapid tweets, federal employees being bullied, brow-beaten, castigated or fired if the...

Although the thesis in Professor Suja A. Thomas' "The Missing American Jury" that summary judgments are unconstitutional is es...

Will Gorsuch be confirmed by the U.S. Senate? The short answer is yes. Many Democrats are already sounding the alarm -- claimi...

One could argue that the annual congressional cohort seeking passage of a bill to end U.S. membership in the United Nations is...

A recent 2nd Circuit case serves as a reminder that California and New York law can differ with respect to the enforceability ...

Beijing and Shanghai venture capital, private equity, sovereign wealth and strategic investors maintain that the interest from...

One legal scholar has called life tenure "the stupidest provision of the 1787 Constitution that has any impact today." By Warr...

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It is important for attorneys and unrepresented litigants in judgment enforcement proceedings to know the facts and their righ...

The late Mary Tyler Moore's autobiography echoes what California family law attorneys have known for decades — kids from divor...

Starting with Section 101, rising to prominence in the Supreme Court ruling in Alice v. CLS Bank, and on through guid...

From an all-gender bathroom bill to prohibitions on differing pay scales, 2017 is an action-packed year for employers trying t...

A recent 9th Circuit case admonishes employers to heed the Fair Credit Reporting Act's stringent authorization requirements be...

Under a new state senate bill proposed by Sens. Toni Atkins and Scott Wiener, local agencies would be authorized to accept cas...

A tour bus is manufactured in Indiana, and delivered to a buyer in Las Vegas. While driving from Las Vegas to the Grand Canyon...

Two proposed amendments will encourage judges to impose more non-prison sentences; and reducing offense levels for "first offe...

Trump's short-sighted disavowal of U.S. international climate obligations will sow the seeds of American isolationism that wil...

The executive order signed by President Donald Trump on Friday to restrict immigration from certain Muslim countries violates ...

The signature-gathering efforts of the California Independence Campaign for an unconstitutional "constitutional" amendment all...

Assembly Bill 1687, which would prohibit IMDb from publishing actors' age, raises First Amendment flags. Last week an array of...

LA County Judge Francis Bennett II followed his father into the law and now is on the bench.

San Diego County Judge John Scherling says tech and family cases have things in common.

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The times they are a-changin' -- especially regarding divorce. As recently as 1964, a messy divorce torpedoed a presidential r...

The famed Beatle is seeking help in the form of a declaratory judgment that his termination under U.S. law of his grants of U....