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Any ‘Adverse Party’ May Oppose Summary Judgment Motion
(July 2, 2025)

Dissolved Corporation Not Limited to Defending Action Against It, May Also Sue—Appeals Court
(July 2, 2025)

Name-Clearing Bid by Woman Fired by UCLA Is Nonjusticiable
(July 2, 2025)

Existence of Fee Dispute With Client Is Confidential Matter
(July 1, 2025)

C.A. Says State Law on Flag Display Cannot Be Overridden by Voter-Approved Initiative
(July 1, 2025)

Group Suing Under Prop. 65 Is Not Bound by Agent’s Actions
(July 1, 2025)

Party Must Share Inactive Status of Opposing Side s Counsel
(June 30, 2025)

Client May Rely on Lawyer s Opinion Despite Lack of Experience in Area of Law C.A.
(June 30, 2025)

Courthouse Construction Bill Goes to Governor Newsom
(June 30, 2025)

Inactive Licensees Validly Barred From Handling ADR
(June 30, 2025)

Court of Appeal Orders Halt to Prosecution of Diana Teran
(June 27, 2025)

Stay of Now-Defunct Enhancement Does Not Interfere With Right to Full Resentencing
(June 27, 2025)

State Supreme Court Extends Jury Trial Rights in Sentencing
(June 27, 2025)

Judge Acting on DVRO Request Should Have Taken Limited Note of Conduct in China
(June 27, 2025)

C.A. Refers Glendale Lawyer to State Bar for Attacks on Court
(June 26, 2025)

Existence of Homeless Encampment Near Beach Is Not Dangerous Condition of Public Property
(June 26, 2025)

Courts in Two Counties Can t Rule on Resentencing Petition
(June 25, 2025)

Coram Nobis Relief Properly Denied Where Instructional Error Not Fundamental
(June 25, 2025)

Death Sentence Is Not Subject to Reduction at Resentencing
(June 25, 2025)

Tribal Immunity Inures to Benefit of Contractor, Diocese
(June 24, 2025)

Judges Rice, Lewis Set July Retirement Dates
(June 24, 2025)

Armendariz, Slayton Have Spots on Judicial Council
(June 24, 2025)

Man Might Not Have to Pay Alimony at 125% of Poverty Level
(June 24, 2025)

California s One-Gun-a-Month Statutes Are Unconstitutional
(June 23, 2025)

C.A. Declares Limits to Breadth of Decision By California Supreme Court in 2017
(June 23, 2025)

Commission to Consider Appointments to C.A.
(June 23, 2025)

Walmart Properly Held Liable for Copyright Abuses by Vendor
(June 20, 2025)

Newsom Appoints Six to L.A. Superior Court
(June 20, 2025)

West L.A. Attorney Agrees to Disbarment for Fruitless Filings
(June 20, 2025)

Wife s Abusive Verbal Conduct Toward Woman Husband Had Affair With Not Protected C.A.
(June 20, 2025)

Judges Decry Case Law on Searches of Probationers Homes
(June 18, 2025)

Court Had One Chance, Only, to Declare That Bail Was Forfeited, Appeals Court Declares
(June 18, 2025)

Restitution Award Issued 30 Years After Conviction Is Proper
(June 18, 2025)

Dissenter Assails Class Certification Based on Flawed Analysis
(June 18, 2025)

Disbarment Draws Closer for Ex-Trump Lawyer Eastman
(June 17, 2025)

Retired C.A. Justice Faces Disciplinary Charges
(June 17, 2025)

School District Must Pay $1 Million Over Bullying of Pupil
(June 17, 2025)

Judge Sanjay Kumar Reflects on Career in Law
(June 17, 2025)

Developer Cannot Avoid Wage Laws by Partnering With City
(June 17, 2025)

Anti-SLAPP Motion Is Only as Timely as Supporting Papers
(June 16, 2025)

LASC Judges Kumar, Luna, Madden to Retire
(June 16, 2025)

U.S. Is Immune From Liability for Alleged Games-Playing
(June 16, 2025)

Firing of CHP Officer Who Claimed Overtime for Hours He Was Home Was Justified C.A.
(June 16, 2025)

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When’s the Next Fight Over Taxpayer Rights?

By JON COUPAL
(In My Opinion, July 2, 2025)

San Francisco's Latest Ridiculous Idea: Taxing Driveways
By JON COUPAL
(In My Opinion, June 25, 2025)

California Homeowners Take Another Hit

By JON COUPAL
(In My Opinion, June 10, 2025)

Newsom s Budget Proposal Is Seriously Unserious

By JON COUPAL
(In My Opinion, June 3, 2025)

Support the Save Proposition 13 Act of 2026
By JON COUPAL
(In My Opinion, June 2, 2025)

We All Saw This Coming
By JON COUPAL
 
(In My Opinion, May 22, 2025)

The Avalanche Has Begun
By R. REX PARRIS
(In My Opinion, May 21, 2025)

Did the Legislature Forget the Pension Crisis?

By JON COUPAL
(In My Opinion May 13, 2025)

California s Politicians Are Clueless
By JON COUPAL
(In My Opinion, May 8, 2025)

Sales Tax Increases Slam the Middle Class
By JON COUPAL
(In My Opinion, April 29, 2025)

Proposition 13 Protects Home Equity
By JON COUPAL
(In My Opinion, April 25, 2025)

UCLA Study Criticizes Measure ULA Tax
By JON COUPAL
(In My Opinion, April 15, 2025)

Sacramento Fails to Consider the Long-Term Consequences
By JON COUPAL

(In My Opinion, April 8, 2025)

How Transfer Taxes Steal Your Home Equity
By JON COUPAL
(In My Opinion, April 3, 2025)

Commission on Judicial Performance Fails to Perform
(Editorial, March 27, 2025)

Mission Creep Inevitably Bites Taxpayers
By JON COUPAL
(In My Opinion, March 26, 2025)

State Assembly Slams the Door on Dissenters
 By JON COUPAL
(In My Opinion March 20, 2025)

How Property Owners Can Block New Fees
 By JON COUPAL
(In My Opinion March 11, 2025)

Is It the End of the Line for the High-Speed Rail?
By JON COUPAL
(In My Opinion February 25, 2025)

Enough Is Enough
By JON COUPAL
(In My Opinion, February 19, 2025)

Enough With the Special Sessions in Sacramento
By JON COUPAL
(In My Opinion, February 11, 2025)

Loss of Influence May Prove to Be a Benefit
By JON COUPAL
(In My Opinion, February 6, 2025)

Orwellian Doublespeak to Attack Prop. 13 Protections
By JON COUPAL
(In My Opinion, January 30, 2025)

Wildfire Victims Are Still Protected by Prop. 13
By JON COUPAL

(In My Opinion, January 24, 2025)

George Turner, Newly Enrobed Judge, Is in Violation of Canon
By a Concerned Citizen
(In My Opinion, January 21, 2025)

Bridge (Toll) Over Troubled Water
By JON COUPAL
(In My Opinion, January 21, 2025)

Effort Continues in 2025 to Restore Name of Hastings to Law School


By KRIS WHITTEN

(In My Opinion, January 10, 2025)

DOGE Presents a Chance to Cancel High-Speed Rail
By JON COUPAL
(In My Opinion, January 7, 2025)

New Laws That Californians Need to Know About
By JON COUPAL
(In My Opinion, December 31, 2024)

Kamala and Tim Want to Meet Me. Gosh.
(Perspectives, August 20, 2024)

Public Is Denied Information That Government Has No Right to Hide
(Perspectives, June 5, 2024)

C.A. Justices Irresponsibly Shield Identities of Sex-Offense Defendants
(Perspectives, April 23, 2024)

No, Weingart, All Minors Need Not Be Identified by Initials, Only
(Perspectives, November 28, 2023)

Judicial Candidate, Registered Democrat, Swears He s Not Democratic Party Member
(Perspectives, September 23, 2022)

May Judicial Candidates Tout Political Party Endorsements in Candidate Statements?
(Perspectives, September 22, 2022)

Should Judicial Candidates Get Away With Deception That Other Candidates Can t?
(Perspectives, September 20, 2022)

Elections Code Section on Ballot Designations Does Apply in Orange, San Diego Counties
(Perspectives, September 19, 2022)

Court of Appeal Wastes Its Time, Needlessly Accords Anonymity to Parties
(Perspectives, September 1, 2022)

It s Hogwash
(Perspectives, June 28, 2022)

Attorney Seeks, Gets, Federal Courts Shielding of Felon s Identity
(Perspectives, June 2, 2022)

Lawyer Seeks Self-Censoring of Report Because She Vouches for Client
(Perspectives, June 1, 2022)

Candidate McKay Is Aptly Described as Clueless Blunderer
(One Judge s View, May 12, 2022)

Gasc n Crosses the Line Again
(Perspectives, May 3, 2022)

Brickbats Tossed at Prosecutor in Long Beach Who Seeks Judgeship
(Perspectives, April 5, 2022)

Ineligible Candidate Seeks Election As Los Angeles City Attorney
(Perspectives, March 15, 2022)

Albert Robles, a Politico With Baggage, Seeks to Unseat Judge
(Perspectives, March 3, 2022)

Judicial Candidate Falsely Portrays Herself as a Deputy District Attorney
(Perspectives, February 28, 2022)

Court of Appeal Justices Swipe Property Belonging to the Public
(Perspectives, November 22, 2021)

If Park Has Won, LACBA Has Lost
(Perspectives, June 2, 2021)

A Lack of Commitment to Fairness Marks Ann I. Park s Tactics
(Perspectives, May 14, 2021)

A Penal System Based on Rehabilitation Was Tried; Failed; Was Dismantled
(Perspectives, February 17, 2021)

Posing as a Progressive, Gasc n, in Reality, Advocates Retrogression
(Perspectives, February 16, 2021)

Consumers: Beware of Instacart! D.A. s Office, Please Take Note
(Perspectives, September 3, 2020)

Xavier Becerra: Doing a Job That Isn t the One He s Paid to Do
(Perspectives, September 1, 2020)

A Dog Named Charlie Is Dead. His Tormentor Goes Free
(Perspectives, August 11, 2020)

Looking Back on 31 Years-Plus in Law Practice

Ernestine
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By L. ERNESTINE FIELDS
(Reflections, July 30, 2020)

The Judge Mike Cummins Scam: This Is the Time for Use of Inherent Powers
(Perspectives, December 10, 2019)

Candidate David D. Diamond Is at It Again
(Perspectives, December 4, 2019)

Los Angeles County Bar Association Leaders, Units Respond to State Bar Access Proposal
(The Legal Community, October 2, 2019)

Returning to Courtroom 16 at the Spring Street Courthouse
By J. STEPHEN CZULEGER
(
Special Feature, August 29, 2019)

The Art of Craft Breweries
By RALPH BARAT SALTSMAN, STEPHEN WARREN SOLOMON
and STEPHEN ALLEN JAMIESON

(
The Legal Community, August 20, 2019)

Secretization Continues: Court of Appeal Extends Anonymity to Drunk Driver
(Perspectives, May 2, 2019)

State High Court Takes Look at Duty of Loyalty Toward a Client and Attorney Fees


By THOMAS EDWARD WALL
(The Legal Community, October 4, 2018)

Parents of Appeals Court Justices Should Have Taught Their Kids Better Manners
(Perspectives, October 2, 2018)

If She Gets to, I Do Too! Candidate Asserts in Writ Petition
(Perspectives, August 22, 2018)

Courts of Appeal Seek to Secretize Public Matters
(Perspectives, July 18, 2018)

A District Court Judge Defies U.S. Supreme Court Precedent
(Perspectives, July 17, 2018)

AB2185 Would Permit Civil Defendants to Waive the Public s Right to Know
(Perspectives, July 10, 2018)

Consitutional Law: Taxes, Guns & Privacy: We Need A Pardon!
By RALPH BARAT SALTSMAN AND STEPHEN WARREN SOLOMON
(The Legal Community, May 23, 2018)

Candidate Says She s Pleased L.A. Times Endorsed Her Opponent
(Perspectives, May 21, 2018)

Registrar-Recorder Refuses to Accede to a Judge s Determination
(Perspectives, April 3, 2018)

More Candidates Try to Get by With Bogus Ballot Designations
(Perspectives, March 14, 2018)

New Law on Ballot Designations Doesn t Stop Shenanigans
(Perspectives, March 13, 2018)

County Squanders Funds in Defense of Lawyer Who Acts Like a Brat
(Perspectives, October 16, 2017)

LACBA s Interim CEO Misinforms Trustees, Calls for Imprudent Action
(Perspectives, July 19, 2017)

Should LACBA Encourage People Not to Hire Lawyers?
(Perspectives, July 18, 2017)

Civil Rights: The CIA, Torture, the State Supreme Court and the Fate of Independent Contactors
By THOMAS EDWARD WALL
(The Legal Community, June 15, 2017)

LACBA-Gate Puts Spotlight on Good Guys, Bad Guys
(Perspectives, May 30, 2017)

Stevens, Brown Need to Explain If They Can
(Perspectives, May 25, 2017)

Secret Task Force Produces Secret Report; Secret Committee Makes Nominations
(Perspectives, May 16, 2017)

Wrongdoing in LACBA: Schemers Slate New Election
(Perspectives, May 5, 2017)

SB 235 Judicial Elections Reform Bill Seen as Worthwhile
(Letters to a Senator, April 28, 2017)

Civil Rights: Marijuana Is Here to Stay
By STEPHEN WARREN SOLOMON, STEPHEN ALLEN JAMIESON, RALPH BARAT SALTSMAN, R. BRUCE EVANS, RYAN M. KROLL
AND JENNIFER L. ODEN

(The Legal Community, February 16, 2017)

Elwood Lui: Following in the Footsteps of David Yaffe
(
Perspectives, February 14, 2017)

Acting PD Seeks to Fool the Board of Supervisors
(
Perspectives, February 10, 2017)

Lawyers Seek to Justify Shielding of Identities of Cheerleaders/Litigants
(
Perspectives, January 19, 2017)

LACBA Censors Report Critical of LACBA


By WILLIAM L. WINSLOW

(Viewpoint, March 4, 2016)

Government Regulation: Court of Appeal Shines Light on Liquor Licensing
By RALPH BARAT SALTSMAN, STEPHEN WARREN SOLOMON
and STEPHEN ALLEN JAMIESON

(The Legal Community, October 20, 2015)

Chinese Americans Face a Challenging Road to Admission


By NOWLAND C. HONG
(The Legal Community, September 17, 2015)

A House for Equal Justice, From Design to Completion


By ELIZABETH R. FEFFER
(
Feature, June 18, 2015

Recalling the Days When the Judges Cracked Down on Vice in Hollywood


By SANDY KRIEGLER
(
Feature, December 1, 2014)

VIEWPOINT ARCHIVES

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By Roger M. Grace

SERIES ON
District Attorneys of  Los Angeles County

 

See Grace s nostalgia column, Reminiscing

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By Jon Coupal and others

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