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I don’t know where I heard this but here’s the best summary describing undecided voters in the November 5 Presidential Campaign. It mimics the menu choices on an airplane flight: “You have two choices: chicken or spoiled tuna with ground glass, which will you have?” Voter: “How is the chicken cooked?” Two Choices We [...]

            Ten state-wide measures qualified for the ballot this November, some proposed by the legislature and some proposed by petitions filed with millions of signatures (and tons of money). My basic rule on Propositions is vote No unless there is a good reason to vote Yes.             Porter’s recommendations for [...]

            As you faithful readers recall, we annually present a handful of our favorite Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest winners.             For you new readers, the Bulwer-Lytton Contest is named after novelist Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton who wrote many famous novels including “Paul Gifford” which started with the immortal words, “It was [...]

            Many of us belong to or intend to join exercise facilities like fitness clubs. Most clubs if not all require new members to sign a Release of Liability sometimes known as a Release of Claims before joining. Does that protect the club should you have an injury and sue? [...]

            Press the Law Review snooze button. We are breaking from our usual boring legalese-ridden guaranteed-to-put-anyone-to-sleep law review columns. Yep, it’s time for our real life, verbatim, Courtroom Bloopers. Most of these come from one of my Hastings, rather California University School of Law, San Francisco, professor’s book; Disorderly Conduct [...]

            While celebrity couples are not necessarily “average” people when it comes to divorce and custody matters, the well-known idiom “we all put our pants on one leg at a time,” does come to mind. In divorce, celebrities face the same legal issues, emotional challenges, and fear of economic [...]

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose- by any other name would smell as sweet.” Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. That my friends is our clever lead into today’s column. Candi Bimbo Doll Candi Bimbo Doll, originally Samantha Wood, petitioned the Superior Court on her own to officially change her name to [...]

            Co-parenting with a high-conflict person (“HCP”) can be mentally, physically, emotionally, and even financially draining. HCPs frequently engage in patterns of high conflict behavior that increase, rather than reduce or avoid, conflict. The conduct can be intentional, defensive, sporadic, and even pathological.  If you are co-parenting with an HCP, [...]

            You avid readers of the Law Review know we have written about plenty of sports injury cases, where the party that allegedly caused the injury and was sued, defends on the basis that the injured party “assumed the risk.” Assumption of the risk defenses are common for snow skiing [...]