California's students won big on Nov. 8 when it passed Proposition 58, which allows English learners to learn English and acad...
Administrative/Regulatory
Drug price initiative was a surprise loss on election night
By Judith A. Waltz
California has come closer than any other state to implementing price controls on drug products, but voters nevertheless rejec...
The ballot measure, which voters passed Nov. 8 and which provides long-awaited relief for California's underfunded educational...
How far can a state pursue a proactive antiestablishment policy before it runs afoul of the free exercise clause of the First ...
Criminal, Government
Death penalty initiative will fail to deliver
By Jon B. Eisenberg
Proposition 66, which California voters passed Nov. 8, was billed as a way to "speed up" California's broken death penalty sys...
The Electoral College has again denied the presidency to the winner of the popular vote, and the nation is again debating whet...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Criminal
Prop. 66 provides long necessary improvements in capital cases
By Lawrence Waddington
State and federal courts may clash over some of the legislation in Proposition 66, but locally its improvements expediting app...
Donald Trump's surprise victory may have rattled the markets and triggered some protests. It is even fueling a "Calexit" movem...
California needs to lead the way to ensure its, and the nation's, progressive environmental programs continue uninterrupted un...
The president-elect's list of potential Supreme Court nominees reflects an overall approach to judicial nominations. By Tony F...
San Diego County Judge Richard Whitney relishes his job but doesn't like surprises in court.
U.S. Supreme Court
Supreme Court nominee will have big impact on diversity
By Allison S. Elgart
If the post-Trump court revisits race-conscious admissions program rulings, the idea of racial diversity as a compelling gover...
One tropical appeal and a dubious marriage threatened to cause a storm in the Northern Mariana Island courts. By Anna-Rose Mat...
Imagine, if you can, the negotiation of a complicated transaction in which the lead negotiators have only half an hour to comm...
Constitutional Law, Law Practice, U.S. Supreme Court
The court that could have been
By Erwin Chemerinsky
Since 1960, 78 years old is the average age at which a Supreme Court justice has left the bench. Three of the current justices...
Law Practice
'Hear Ye, Hear Ye!' Asynchronously
Imagine, if you can, the negotiation of a complicated transaction in which the lead negotiators have only half an hour to comm...
Effective Jan. 1, 2017, Caltrans is making significant changes to the specifications for dispute resolution boards (DRB) and d...
Plan out negotiation scenarios before trial in order to make the best decision about settlement, as inter-trial settlement neg...
During a dissolution of marriage, tempered financial management is essential to protecting your client from court imposed sanc...
Starting next month, millions of additional American workers will be entitled to overtime pay. By David Harris and Yvette Davi...
It's not just people eager to light up who are celebrating — there are those who wish to cash in on this emerging industry. By...
Constitutional Law
Undercover videos serve a valuable public benefit
By Alexandra Snyder
Last year, David Daleiden released the first of a series of videos featuring conversations with Planned Parenthood directors a...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, U.S. Supreme Court
Cases portend another record-breaking year for 9th Circuit
By Lawrence Waddington
The U.S. Supreme Court opened its 2016-2017 term in October, but in August and September the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...
Administrative/Regulatory
Time to revisit vehicular pursuit laws
By Robert L. Bastian Jr.
That innocent persons injured or killed by LAPD vehicular pursuits not only spiked this past year, and at a rate that compares...
The underlying facts of a False Claims Act case argued before the U.S. Supreme Court last week are the stuff of a good Hollywo...
Donald Trump's stunning victory in the presidential election comes with an immediate opportunity: a nomination to replace the ...
Insurance
IRS to increase scrutiny of 'micro captive' insurance companies
By Bruce Givner
Last week, the IRS increased the pressure on these entities, labeling virtually all micro captives as "Transactions of Interes...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Disclosing an antitrust investigation: the US vs France
By Lionel Lesur
Investigations by antitrust authorities in both jurisdictions could constitute material information triggering a disclosure ob...
In a recent case, the District of Delaware denied a motion to dismiss claims of breach of the fiduciary duties of care and loy...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Bankruptcy
9th Circuit limits a borrower's ability to 'cure' in Chapter 11
By David S. Kupetz, Asa Hami
The court addressed "whether Entz-White's rule that a debtor may nullify a loan agreement's requirement of post-defau...