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24 Sep 2014, 9:01 pm
The past year or so has been a rough period for people who support the design of the direct democracy process in California. [read post]
18 Sep 2014, 1:05 am
Selections include passages from works such as Kafka’s The Trial, Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, Richard Wright’s Native Son, David Mamet’s The Verdict, J’accuse by Emile Zola, and much more, including of course, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. [read post]
16 Sep 2014, 9:30 pm
Jonathan Klick, an economist on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and Joshua D. [read post]
28 Aug 2014, 9:01 pm
A few months ago, I wrote about an effort by the California legislature to undo an unwise (but duly enacted) voter initiative involving immigration policy. [read post]
14 Aug 2014, 9:01 pm
As the fall semester approaches and college freshmen prepare to start school, there is renewed criticism of the University of California’s decision, implemented over the last few years at all or nearly all of the system’s campuses, to increase the number and percentage of out-of-state and international college students. [read post]
31 Jul 2014, 9:01 pm
In my last column, Part I of this Two-Part series, I argued that lower courts are justified in paying (indeed perhaps required to pay) close attention to Justice Kennedy’s concurring opinion in this summer’s blockbuster Burwell v. [read post]
31 Jul 2014, 7:13 am
Wright presses for lobbyist reform” by Cameron Dodd in the Missourian. [read post]
17 Jul 2014, 9:01 pm
Legal and political commentators have already spent thousands of hours on how best to understand Justice Alito’s majority opinion in Burwell v. [read post]
29 Jun 2014, 9:01 pm
In my last column, I began analyzing SB 396, a laudable but legally questionable effort by the California legislature to repeal, by ordinary legislation, provisions of Proposition 187, a 1994 voter-enacted measure that imposed harsh restrictions on unlawful immigrants in the State, restrictions that have since been blocked indefinitely by a federal district court judge. [read post]
19 Jun 2014, 9:01 pm
In the space below, I analyze a pending effort by California lawmakers to cleanse the California statute books of (what are to my mind) some mean-spirited provisions concerning the treatment of undocumented immigrants in the State. [read post]
5 Jun 2014, 9:01 pm
While many analysts this month are understandably focused on the blockbuster rulings that are due from the Supreme Court in June—the back end of the Supreme Court litigation process, if you will—in my column today I introduce and briefly analyze the front end of three cases on which the Court has granted review for the next Term, which begins this fall. [read post]
22 May 2014, 9:01 pm
Earlier this month, in Town of Greece v. [read post]
8 May 2014, 9:01 pm
When the Supreme Court in Schuette v. [read post]
28 Apr 2014, 5:30 pm
Lawsuit for “Unauthorized” Behringer Tweets filed in Seattle Federal Court – Seattle lawyer Benjamin Justus on his blog, Troll Defense Generational Marketing: Strategies & Tactics from Heather Morse & Jonathan Fitzgarrald – Legal marketing expert Lindsay Griffiths of International Lawyers Network on Zen & The Art of Legal Networking Marijuana, Banking, and the “10-Foot Pole” – Washington, DC lawyer Karen Ross of Davis… [read post]
24 Apr 2014, 9:01 pm
In the space below, I offer analysis of a campaign regulation case in which the U.S. [read post]
24 Apr 2014, 7:55 am
Source: “NC man charged with felony DUI after deadly Fort Mill crash,” by Jonathan McFadden, published at HeraldOnline.com. [read post]
10 Apr 2014, 9:01 pm
The Sebelius v. [read post]
4 Apr 2014, 5:54 am
John Wright is calling on lawmakers to sign a pledge promising not to accept gifts from lobbyists. [read post]
1 Apr 2014, 7:54 am
The list of attendees included Mark Lemley, Amy Kapczynski, Yochai Benkler, Lisa Larrimore Ouellette, John Golden, Hannah Wiseman, Rebecca Eisenberg, Michael Abramowicz, Sean Pager, Jessica Silbey, Pam Samuelson, Barton Beebe, Ian Ayres, Brett Frischmann, Mark McKenna, Bryan Choi, Frank Pasquale, Tal Zarsky, Julie Cohen, Margot Kaminski, Michael Burstein, Bhaven Sampat, Brian Wright, Jonathan Masur, Dan Burk, Liza Vertinsky, Roger Ford, Sean O’Connor, Jim Bessen, Talha Syed,… [read post]
27 Mar 2014, 9:01 pm
In early January, I wrote about Silicon Valley billionaire Tim Draper’s proposed initiative (“Six Californias”) that seeks to bring about a division of California into six separate states. [read post]