• Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) Save Lives

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    June 19, 2025

                In the mid 90’s defibrillators became available for emergency care to treat victims of cardiac arrest-heart attacks. CPR has significantly fewer positive results than defibrillators. Defibrillators are user-friendly and can be used by rescuers without formal training. Defibrillators have the advantage of limited legal immunity for rescuers. Today’s case [...]

  • Property Rights and Possession: The Legal Impact of Moving Out During Divorce

    By Traci S. Mason

    June 16, 2025

    DISCLAIMER: This article is not a substitute for professional legal advice.  This article does not create an attorney-client relationship, nor is it a solicitation to offer legal advice.             Some fear that moving out of the marital home may put them at a disadvantage in the division of marital property. [...]

  • ATROS 101: What You Can & Can’t Do Once Divorce Papers Are Filed

    By Traci S. Mason

    May 29, 2025

    When people hear the term “restraining order,” they often associate it with wrongdoing or punishment. Put simply, a restraining order is a legal tool designed to protect a party or parties by limiting certain actions during a legal case.  In family law, this protective tool takes the form of Automatic Temporary Restraining Order (ATROS). Often [...]

  • Register As an Organ Donor and Save Lives

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    April 23, 2025

    As most of you serious Law Review readers know April is National Donate Life. We do an organ and tissue donor column every few years as the message bears repeating. Over 100,000 Americans are in need of an organ transplant—every day an average of seventeen people die waiting for an organ donation. More than [...]

  • From the Courtroom to the Streets: What a Police Simulation Taught Me

    By Traci S. Mason

    April 5, 2025

                “You’re dead.”             My hand was on the gun, but he was too close—and his knife was even closer. I exhaled, realizing I’d been holding my breath. I was going to pull the trigger. I tried to recall the training by Officer Beers—the exceptions—the [...]

  • The Legal Rights of Election Observers in California

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    April 3, 2025

                  Election observers, sometimes tainted with intimidation, have as of late used the courts to challenge California elections. Take for example Election Integrity Project California, Inc and Advocates For Faith and Freedom who filed a lawsuit against Mark Lunn as Ventura County Clerk/Recorder claiming they were denied the right [...]

  • Fight After Forty Niner Game in Levi’s Stadium Results in Lawsuit

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    March 6, 2025

                Parking lots fights and assaults after big league sporting events, always involving alcohol, are not uncommon. While the parties involved in the incident often face legal liability, the companies managing the parking lots generally do not. Take Stokes v. Forty-Niners Stadium Management Co. for example.   Fight in Levi’s [...]

  • Contractors Don’t Let Your Workers Comp Insurance Lapse

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    January 31, 2025

                Contractors at my construction seminars have heard me drone on about the importance about maintaining their workers compensation insurance and keeping their contractors license valid. Failure to do so can have catastrophic results. Here is a new case that proves that point.             ABI [...]

  • Game Changer: Trump’s Long-Serving Chief of Staff Calls Trump a “Fascist” and Explains- Part Two

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    November 1, 2024

                New damning information has come out about former President Trump-hard to imagine there could be even more. Retired Marine Corps General John Kelly, Trump’s long-term former Chief of Staff, said: “the definition of fascism accurately describes the former President (Kelly went on to define the word: demagogue and more). [...]