Blog Posts in 2021

As discussed here previously, Senate Bill 1437 dramatically amended the law governing murder prosecutions in California. The goal of the law was to significantly limit murder prosecutions of people ...

On December 1 st , the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson , a case in which a Mississippi law that bans abortions after 15 weeks is being challenged. Roe v. Wade , the law of ...

Access to justice is an enormous issue in our country. While we pride ourselves on being a “nation of laws,” the fact of the matter is that many people are unable to equitably access our justice ...

As criminal justice reform has swept the nation in the last few years, a big topic of discussion has been finding a fairer way to ensure that juries reflect an unbiased cross-section of the community. ...

I have talked about it before here. Qualified immunity is bad . The doctrine, created to protect police and their municipal employers from lawsuits by the US Supreme Court in 1967 at the height of the ...

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