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20 Nov 2014, 9:01 pm
Over the next few days, the California Bar announces the outcomes from the July 2014 exam. [read post]
3 Jan 2013, 9:01 pm
Amid all the drama surrounding the fiscal cliff negotiations of the last few weeks, there was an important, sad, and in some respects troubling development in the U.S. [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]
18 May 2017, 9:01 pm
Although I had planned to write on another subject this week, recent and fast-moving events warrant attention to the topic of impeachment, a process more and more commentators (and some legislators on Capitol Hill) have been mentioning. [read post]
7 Sep 2017, 9:01 pm
In my last column, I began analyzing a recent plan by Silicon Valley billionaire investor Tim Draper to break up California into three separate states stemming from his view that “California’s diverse population and economies [have] rendered the state nearly ungovernable. [read post]
21 Sep 2017, 9:01 pm
One of the most-watched cases of the Supreme Court’s upcoming Term is Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. [read post]
30 Nov 2017, 9:01 pm
Over the next few weeks, law school final exams will be in full swing at almost every law school in the country. [read post]
8 Oct 2015, 9:01 pm
Last year at the Supreme Court, there was some level of drama about who would win or lose what I (and many other analysts) thought were the major cases; most people expected Justice Kennedy to join (as he did) with the more liberal Justices to recognize a national right of marriage equality for same-sex couples, but folks were less confident about the results in the Obamacare tax subsidies case and the challenge to Arizona’s independent redistricting commission, to name just a few. [read post]
16 Jun 2016, 9:01 pm
Donald Trump’s calls for the judge presiding over the federal fraud lawsuit against Trump University, Gonzalo Curiel, to remove himself from the case because of ethnicity-inspired bias against Mr. [read post]
19 May 2016, 9:01 pm
Here they (or we, depending on point of view) go again—yet another complicated lawsuit seeking to mortally wound the Affordable Care Act (popularly known as Obamacare) is wending its way through the federal courts. [read post]
1 Feb 2019, 10:37 am
• Paul Jonathan Brown, 48, of Houston, died December 22, 2018. [read post]
11 Jan 2016, 9:01 pm
Shortly before Christmas, the California State Bar released detailed data on the July 2015 bar exam results, and the information confirms some national patterns but also contains a few surprises. [read post]
17 Jun 2019, 9:01 pm
Last week Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law SB 168, considered one of the strictest measures in the nation to prohibit state and local government entities from becoming so-called “sanctuary” jurisdictions within the state. [read post]
27 Feb 2014, 9:01 pm
In the space below, we offer some unconventional thoughts about the highly-anticipated Sebelius v. [read post]
27 Feb 2023, 4:40 am
Jonathan Wheatley reports for the Financial Times. [read post]
23 Sep 2015, 9:01 pm
Many of the essays posted on Verdict deal with Supreme Court cases; in today’s column I focus on an opinion issued by a court at the base, rather than the pinnacle, of the federal judicial system—this month’s ruling by a federal district court in Arizona disposing of residual challenges brought against Arizona’s SB 1070 statute, the statute passed in 2010 attempting to deal with immigration stresses in the state, parts of which were struck down two years later by the Supreme… [read post]
12 May 2019, 9:01 pm
President Trump’s tweet a few weeks ago—indicating that he “would first head to the U.S. [read post]
5 Dec 2016, 2:30 am
Today’s live blog team comprises Ryan Dolby-Stevens (Olswang), Natalie Hall (CMS), Jonathan Scrine (Nabarro), Jack Ballantyne (Olswang), Clementine Bottet (Nabarro) & Cathryn Hopkins (Olswang). 16.32: James Eadie QC submits that any control by Parliament of the royal prerogative has been via express provision. [read post]
8 Sep 2016, 9:01 pm
Late last month, a federal trial court in Texas issued a nationwide order preventing the federal Department of Education (DOE), as well as a number of other federal agencies, from enforcing—anywhere in the country—their “interpretation of the definition of ‘sex’ in the various written directives … as applied to Title IX … and Title VII” (which are federal laws that prohibit certain entities from discriminating on the basis of sex). [read post]
27 Mar 2022, 4:50 pm
Malta The Times of Malta reports that former Financnail Intelligence Analysis United official Jonathan Ferris has won €3,000 in libel damages against Malta Today managing editor Saviour Balzan over a video blog published five years ago. [read post]
