Overview: Pollinating honey bees are in dire straits, suffering Colony Collapse throughout the country. Many experts believe the problem is frequent use of insecticides and pesticides by growers that has the unintended consequence of killing pollinating bees which is killing fruit growers. Read this week’s ... Read more >
Overview: This Law Review highlights more of California’s 898 new laws for 2017, seems like some kind of record. Learn about ballot selfies, date rape drugs, cell phones when driving, child safety seats and much more, boring but it is the law. Here are a ... Read more >
Overview: Californians overwhelmingly passed Prop 2 in 2008, requiring chickens to be confined where they could stand up, fully extend their limbs and turn around freely, all movements one would think a chicken should be allowed to do. All eggs sold in the Golden State ... Read more >
Those of you in the real estate world know about dual agency, where a real estate agent represents the buyer and the seller. A dual agent owes a fiduciary duty of utmost care, integrity, honesty and loyalty to both the seller and the buyer. In ... Read more >
Overview: Jim Porter’s Christmas gift to his readers (of 37 years) is a Lawyer Humor column, better than his usual (self described, but he doesn’t really mean it) boring columns, so don’t miss the latest Courtroom Gaffes, always a hoot. The Christmas season is upon ... Read more >
Overview: Is there any advantage when buying a used car in California to buy a so-called ‘Certified’ used vehicle? What exactly does that mean? To find out read this week's Law Review where Jim Porter analyzes a new federal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision ... Read more >
This San Francisco‑based Court of Appeal decision balances the tension between technological advancements brought on by wireless companies and a community’s interest in maintaining aesthetics. On just about any street or highway in America we find telephone, cable, electrical, internet and wireless lines and equipment. ... Read more >
Overview: Starbucks was sued in a class action (Fredrickson v. Starbucks) filed by three of its former baristas (you will soon know where that term comes from), for withholding federal and state taxes from tips received by the coffee servers. The baristas claimed such tax ... Read more >
Overview: In a long awaited decision, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals this month unanimously upheld the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency’s 2012 Regional Plan Update, a planning document culminating 10 years of public hearings and processing, including NEPA compliance. The new Regional Plan had been ... Read more >
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