Marijuana, Federalism, and Guns

The Wall Street Journal reports : 28 states and Washington D.C., allow marijuana use in some form, including eight that allow recreational u...

No, It is Not Legal to Smoke Marijuana While Walking On the Sidewalk in Downtown Los Angeles

...or in any other California city or town for that matter. On November 8, California passed Proposition 64 (text of the Proposition here , ...

Oakland's Resistance to Mass Surveillance: Would it Play Out the Same Way Today?

The BBC has this interesting article on an attempt by the City of Oakland, California to adopt a wide-ranging surveillance system, and the ...

Volokh (and Dolinko's) Lost Maxims of Equity

Here's some informative Monday evening scholarship for those who are interested in learning more about remedies, equity, or life in gen...

California Lawsuits Allege That Suspension of Drivers' Licenses Violates Due Process

The Los Angeles Times reports : Civil rights lawyers filed suit Tuesday accusing the Los Angeles Superior Court of improperly suspending dri...

Evaluating the Pokemon Go Class Action Lawsuit

Several news outlets have reports on Marder v. Niantic, Inc. , filed July 29, 2016 in the Federal District Court for the Northern District o...

Does California Need a Law Prohibiting Drones Near Wildfires?

Ars Technica reports : Firefighters working to contain a wildfire in the San Gabriel Mountains of Southern California were temporarily thwar...

Police Body Cameras: Not a Cure-All, But a Step in the Right Direction

The Wall Street Journal has this article  from last week on police body cameras and the Alton Sterling shooting. The Journal notes that whil...

Airbnb Sues San Francisco, Alleges Violation of CDA Section 230

On June 27, 2016, Airbnb filed a complaint against the City of San Francisco in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Califo...

Weird Law of the Day: California Penal Code 598 - Hating on Swallows

Today's weird law is the strangely specific California Penal Code section 598 , which states: Every person who, within any public cemete...

Weird Law of the Day: California Penal Code 597h - Animals Attached to Power Propelled Devices

Here's an interesting California law I stumbled across recently.   Penal Code section 597h states: a) It shall be unlawful for any pers...

Congratulations to Those Who Passed the California Bar Exam!

Today is the day that those who took the July California Bar Exam learned whether they have passed.  For those who passed, congratulations! ...

California Governor Vetoes Drone Bills; Denounces Creation of New Crimes

The Los Angeles Times has this report on California Governor Jerry Brown's veto of several bills that would criminalize flying drones o...

California Governor Vetoes Drone Trespass Bill

So reports the LA Times : Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday vetoed legislation to restrict the use of drones over private property. The legislat...

Good Luck on the Bar Exam!

Students across the country are taking, or will be taking, the bar exam over the next few days. California's bar exam begins today and w...

California's Fractional Statutes

One interesting phenomenon I have noticed in a few of California's statutes is the numbering of sections with fractions rather than deci...

California Penal Code 602.12 and Unlawful Entry Onto Property to Interfere With Research

Consider a couple of hypothetical situations. Al is a graduate student at UCLA who lives in Los Angeles, California. It is summertime so Al&...

Concerns Over the California State Bar's Practical Training Proposal

Paul Caron has this post at TaxProf Blog quoting extensively from a (paywalled) article at The National Law Journal. From the quoted porti...

San Diego 'Zombie Walk' Cancelled as Criminal Case and Lawsuit Looms

So reports NBC San Diego and Fox 5 . In previous years the "Zombie Walk," has been a popular attraction associated with Comic-Con...

Chemerinsky: California Should Adopt the Uniform Bar Exam

Erwin Chemerinsky, noted constitutional law professor and the dean of UC Irvine School of Law, recently wrote this op-ed in the Los Angeles...