Tomorrow is February 1, the deadline for California lawyers to pay their dues to the California State Bar. I keep this post bookmarked as a reminder of how that organization tries to trick its members every year into paying more… Continue Reading
As a Republican “in the wilderness,” I listened with new ears to the most recent Intelligence Squared debate considering the motion to legalize drugs. My views having transitioned from Against to Undecided, I expected the proponents’ arguments on this occasion… Continue Reading
Strictly speaking, “conservatism” only plays for a tie. In American conservatism, there’s a bit of revanchism, but only so much of a rollback is even possible: overturn Roe and the question reverts to the states as a matter of policy… Continue Reading
Via George Anastaplo’s “In Re Antonin Scalia”, wherein we see Scalia as a legal positivist and no natural lawyer, more a “modern” than a Catholic conservative. But first, the great Mortimer Adler on Plato: [In Plato’s Republic, we] find the… Continue Reading
That’s the question asked in the lawsuit I filed recently, which has been attracting a lot of local media attention. As the complaint alleges, my clients, owners of Desert Sun Resort in Palm Springs, were threatened with legal action under… Continue Reading
The Washington Examiner reports that, according to a DOJ guideline issued January 31 interpreting a provision of the ADA, all operators of publicly accessible swimming pools—including cities, HOAs, hotels, spas, and gyms—must install a permanent fixed lift at a cost… Continue Reading
Every three years, members of the California State Bar have to complete a minimum of 25 hours of continuing legal education (“CLE”). These include four hours of specifically approved “legal ethics” training. CLE hours typically run from about $35 to… Continue Reading
In the comments to my recent piece on the new babysitter legislation on its way to becoming law in California, co-blogger Tom Van Dyke mentioned that Gov. Jerry Brown “has a righteous spark.” The very next day, Gov. Brown proved… Continue Reading
The California Assembly, faced with such difficult tasks as prison overcrowding, the second-highest unemployment rate in the nation, one of the worst business climates in the nation, and a broken education financing policy (article forthcoming), apparently has prioritized the issue… Continue Reading
I was amused to find that Marc Angelucci—the attorney who sued a small business owner for thousands of dollars for minor and unintentional ADA violations while his restaurant was under construction—posted a response to my recent post about California Senator… Continue Reading