As soon as I cracked open the paper this morning and saw the article on Roommates.com, I knew I had missed a large and thorough post on the subject by Prof. Eric Goldman of Santa Clara. Yup; there it is. I am referring to Fair Housing Council of San Fernando Valley v. Roommates.com, a Ninth […]
Law21’s Jordan Furlong made a great post today on “work/life balance,” both the concept itself and the way the legal industry looks at it. Unlike most people who talk about this issue, he took the trouble to distinguish between billable hour requirements themselves and the market forces behind them — concluding that the problem isn’t […]
That excitement isn’t me; it’s 2/3 the Beastie Boys and 1/3 the blogosphere. Gentry, for those of you not watching employment law, is Gentry v. Superior Court (Circuit City), a California case about employment arbitration. Our very own state Supreme Court said that employee contracts waiving the right to class-action arbitration are sometimes unenforceable (regardless […]
I haven’t been posting lately because I’m feeling a bit snowed under by work (every independent contractor’s favorite problem), but I know just from reading the newspaper that there’s a lot of blog-worthy stuff happening. I promise I’ll be on it when things clear up a bit.
First, we have Lanier v. City of Woodburn, in which the Ninth says it’s unconstitutional (under both the federal constitution and the constitution of the state of Oregon) to drug-test a woman who wanted to be a part-time page at a city-owned library in Oregon. They didn’t have any special reason to suspect her of […]
Over the weekend, I saw a couple of articles in the LA Times about a recent appellate decision on home schooling. The articles didn’t mention when or where the decision came from, IIRC, but it was a weekend and I didn’t get around to looking it up. Fortunately, Professor Martin reminded me about the case, […]
SLAPP means Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation. We have an anti-SLAPP law in California, which allows you to ask the judge to dismiss a lawsuit you believe is a SLAPP. (Other states have similar laws.) I have always pictured this as a metaphorical judicial smackdown, daytime-talk-show style, but I’m sure judges prefer a metaphor with […]
Freelance writers with legal savvy look for clauses in their contracts that say where legal disputes should be heard. Erik Sherman, who frequently looks over contracts on his WriterBiz blog, is a stickler for this (which I applaud). Generally, that’s because you want to ensure that you can sue in your own area if you […]
Technology has failed me on the SCOCAL oral arguments, so I’m turning to the second most interesting thing happening in the California Supreme Court this week that has to do with gay people: Jones v. The Lodge At Torrey Pines. In this case, plaintiff Scott Jones was a manager at a fancy hotel’s restaurant in […]
First, let me just remind everyone that SCOCAL is going to broadcast oral arguments in In re Marriage Cases tomorrow from 9 a.m. to noon on the California Channel. Press releases from the court say the channel will also webcast it, if you’re interested but don’t have Californian cable. As far as I know, the […]
