Mathis v. United States stands for the proposition that the government always carries the burden of proving that a pr...

Neither the California Supreme Court nor the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled on the issue of so-called "self-help"...

On the 13th anniversary of its 2003 decision in the landmark Grutter v. Bollinger, the U.S. Supreme Court finally put...

Will consolidating the U.S. food industry's vulnerabilities into centralized and detailed plans create a new and significant w...

The court recently rendered an unprecedented opinion in Flores v. City of San Gabriel concerning the regular rate of ...

The Supreme Court correctly held that the Sixth Amendment does not compel Indian tribes to provide counsel to indigent tribal ...

If it passes, the CREATES bill will help bring generic drugs to market more quickly. By Robin Feldman ...

Much about the recent settlement in the class action against Ticketmaster demonstrates what is wrong with class actions in Cal...

In his final thoughts in a recent concurrence, a 9th Circuit judge writes that "the case law ... has drifted from what Congres...

Earlier this week, the Supreme Court issued its final decisions of the October 2015 term. Here is a look at the major decision...

Cash is king, but alternative forms of payment for legal services are becoming more common. ...

In California and numerous other jurisdictions, an insurer may be liable for economic losses, emotional distress, certain atto...

The withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union will have many consequences for businesses around the globe. By A...

On June 21, the Federal Aviation Administration finally issued a final rule regarding the non-hobbyist operations of small dro...

If the cost of first-year salary increases is passed to clients, alternative fee arrangements, regional firms and "offshore" e...

Senate Bill 1146 targets students at faith-based colleges and universities by shrinking an existing religious exemption and th...

One of the overarching themes to the Supreme Court's review of Federal Circuit cases in the last 15 years is that the Federal ...

In CDX Holdings Inc. v. Fox, the Delaware Supreme Court affirmed the Delaware Court of Chancery's decision that a cla...

A lawsuit in federal court seeking a ruling that the song "This Land is Your Land" is the latest in a series of recent copyrig...

Last Thursday a unanimous jury exonerated British rockers Jimmy Page and Robert Plant -- two members of the storied Led Zeppel...

In many cases a provisional patent application covering trade secrets should be filed immediately after conception or acquisit...

An increasingly fractured community is one force stopping patent reform, and much of the debate has been increasingly driven b...

As U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen wrote back in February 2015, DAPA doesn't merely set deportation priorities, but engages i...

I read the two lawyer's positions on the Peruta v. San Diego concealed carry decision with a kind of sad amusement.

A recent 9th Circuit decision does three things that will significantly impact wage and hour class actions. By Hunter Pyle ...

Social workers should be able to place hospital holds on children without facing suits for Fourth Amendment seizure if a child...

Most client requests reflect a need for immediate help, or what the client thinks is a need for immediate help — which is the ...

As a progressive San Francisco Democrat and a conservative Orange County Republican, we often disagree, but we do agree that t...

Earn MCLE credit reviewing what constitutes part of the record of conviction which is admissible to prove serious felony priors.

The tightening of judicial budgets here in California has hit litigants with limited budgets especially hard: The affordabilit...