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15 Jan 2015, 9:01 pm
One of the important Supreme Court cases currently being briefed (with oral argument set for March), Arizona Legislature v. [read post]
9 May 2013, 9:01 pm
In my column today, I analyze an interesting case that a state Supreme Court will soon decide that illustrates, and has implications for, important national questions concerning the Establishment and Free Exercise clauses of the First Amendment. [read post]
4 Oct 2018, 9:01 pm
Earlier this week, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law SB 826, a landmark measure that requires each publicly held corporation whose principal executive offices are located in California to have, by the end of 2019, at least one woman on its board of directors. [read post]
9 Feb 2017, 9:01 pm
With many eyes this week on the Ninth Circuit litigation challenging President Trump’s Executive Order regulating entry into the U.S. by nationals of seven Middle Eastern and African countries, less noticed but potentially as important is a separate lawsuit (San Francisco v. [read post]
1 Jan 2015, 9:01 pm
About a month ago I wrote an essay for this website commenting on the drop in bar passage rates in many states in the fall of 2014. [read post]
11 May 2022, 4:07 am
George Wright reports for BBC News. [read post]
19 Dec 2022, 2:31 am
The Michaelmas Legal Term ends on Wednesday 21 December 2022. [read post]
21 Feb 2019, 9:01 pm
In our last column, we explored some threshold justiciability issues (focusing on the plaintiff’s standing to sue in federal court) in the recent federal lawsuit by a Texas-based nonprofit organization—Faculty, Alumni, and Students Opposed to Racial Preferences (FASORP)—against Harvard Law Review (HLR), challenging HLR’s use of race and gender in selecting members and also in selecting authors for publication. [read post]
23 May 2012, 5:52 am
Follow @InfoGovernance eDiscovery News Content and Considerations 7th Circuit eDiscovery Pilot Program Tackles Technology Assisted Review - bit.ly/LjdGij (Allison Walton) ABA Working Group Issues Interim Report on eDiscovery in Bankruptcy Cases – Electronic Discovery Law – bit.ly/KJpyM4 (K&L Gates) Another Step Forward: District Court Affirms Seminal Decision Authorizing Computer-Assisted Review – bit.ly/JooXtm (William Vita)… [read post]
13 Feb 2014, 9:01 pm
In Part One of this series, we began to analyze the recent decision from the federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in SmithKline Beecham Corp. v. [read post]
16 Jul 2013, 9:01 pm
Last month’s ruling by the U.S. [read post]
27 May 2011, 7:32 am
(Touro College) farcila@tourolaw.edu A Spectacular Non Sequitur *David Gray (University of Maryland) Reasonableness with Teeth: The Future of Fourth Amendment Reasonableness Analysis *Cynthia K Lee (George Washington University) Interrogation and the Roberts Court: Rules for "Fair Play," Not Protecting Vulnerable Suspects *Jonathan Witmer-Rich (Cleveland State University) Abstract: Among the Fourth Amendment’s core concerns is the… [read post]
7 May 2015, 9:01 pm
As we noted in a column for this site two weeks ago, state religious freedom restoration acts, or RFRAs, such as the recently amended Indiana religious liberty statute, have been criticized on the ground that they are intended to permit discrimination against gays, lesbians, and same-sex couples in the provision of goods and services. [read post]
12 Jul 2018, 9:01 pm
It looks like Justice Anthony Kennedy will be replaced by one of his former clerks, DC Circuit Judge Brett Kavanaugh. [read post]
31 Jan 2013, 9:01 pm
In my column today, I explore what might be learned from the decision by the House of Representatives last week and the seemingly imminent (as of this writing) decision of the Senate this week to pass a bill that seems on its face to directly violate the clear text of the Constitution. [read post]
24 Oct 2022, 5:14 am
Craig Wright did not amount to unlawful defamation in Norway Amazon is facing a £900m class action claim alleging that the online retailer pushed customers towards deals which benefited the company over them. [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]
21 Jan 2007, 9:41 pm
Introduction Causation is one of the basic conceptual tools of legal analysis. [read post]
20 Dec 2012, 9:01 pm
Two of the biggest storylines from last month’s elections involved battles over same-sex equality rights and the decriminalization of marijuana. [read post]
14 Jun 2018, 9:01 pm
One of the most contentious cases of the Supreme Court’s term has been Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. [read post]
