Law Roundtable

The United States Environmental Protection Agency just lost a battle that it has been fighting with the Sierra Club since 2004.  As you know, the USEPA sets the standards for air quality around the country.  Since the air pollution is particularly bad in California, and especially in the San Joaquin ...

If you run a business, you know all about the California State Board of Equalization.  It's a euphemestically named government organization that is our equivalent of the IRS.  You know, those folks who collect taxes.Proposition 13 was enacted by California voters in an attempt to keep property taxes down.  The ...

You may say it would be better to have a judge in your pocket, but then, so does everyone else.  I'm talking about a level playing field, with a lawyer in your pocket.  You know, the kind you can ask any question to when you have a legal problem, and ...

Since 2010, there has been great debate over the controversial ruling commonly called Citizens United.  Most recently, the Montana Supreme Court challenged the decision while Senator McCain called it "one of the worst decisions I have ever seen." Please join me as I welcome Attorney Joseph M. Birkenstock, former chief ...

Decriminalizing medical marijuana, fighting to repeal healthcare reform and using social media as evidence are just a few of the topics trending in the legal industry in 2012.  My co-host, Bob Ambrogi, is off today, so please join me as I discuss the hottest trends currently transforming the legal world ...

In yet another of a long line of cases involving copyright infringement, we now have the case of UMG Recordings v. Shelter Capital Group, where Universal Music Group attempted to get around the Digital Millenium Copyright Act by suing the investors in video-sharing case, with hints of Napster-like allegations.  UMG ...

You can bet there will be a host of litigation spawned because of this accident:  the death of a Mother, who was survived by her minor children and an adult daughter.  But it might not be the lawsuits you're thinking.Let me explain.Mom was a passenger in a car. After she ...

From the spectacle of the Casey Anthony trial, to the great debate over the health care law, to the controversial immigration law in Arizona, 2011 was a big year in the law.  Please join me and my fellow Lawyer2Lawyer co-host and attorney, Robert Ambrogi as we welcome our returning guest, Stephen ...

One of my favorite cities, Carmel-by-the-Sea (isn't that a great name for a city?) decided to sell the Flanders Mansion (a historical mansion it owned) because it was tired of paying the upkeep.  True to California law, it completed an Environmental Impact Report (here known as a Final Environmental Impact Report).  ...

The sun is rising oh-slow-slowly on the far East side of Colorado Boulevard with the palm trees silhoutted against the pale blue sky with twiges of light orange.  Behind me the sky is still dark blue and black.  A fire crackles in a rusted-out half drum on the grass, and ...