Weekly Appellate Report

Kirk Jenkins (Sedgwick LLP) discusses his firm's new blog quantitatively analyzing 16 years of state appellate rulings; Luke Wake (NFIB Small Bus. Legal Center) addresses the limits of administrative power, after CASC arguments in Assn. of CA Ins. Companies v. Dave Jones

William Meronek (Riverside Cnty. Pub. Def.) discusses Harris v. Sup. Ct., and why successful Prop 47 petitions shouldn't re-open prosecutions; Professor Richard Marcus (UC Hastings Law) chats Picasso, French remedies, and foreign law in the Ninth Circuit

Michael Singer (Cohelan Khoury & Singer) voices CAFA concerns as the 9th Circuit applies state labor standards to "call-in" shifts; Neal Marder (Akin Gump) discusses Brazil v. Dole and potentially wider liability for companies labeling foods "All Natural."

Ian Fein (Orrick) chats the Ninth Circuit's new review standard for FOIA appeals after ALDF v. FDA; Prof. Scott Dodson (UC Hastings) discusses his recent book The Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg as SCOTUS' new term opens

Kiran Seldon (Seyfarth Shaw) chats on-call rest breaks after CASC arguments in Augustus v. ABM; John Cannon (Stradling) considers the 9th's SEC v. Jensen and expansion of CEO/CFO liability after financial restatements

Attorney Jamie Lee Williams (Electronic Frontier Foundation) advocates for en banc review in a broad computer fraud ruling, Facebook v. Power Ventures; Jeffrey Melching (Rutan & Tucker) chats a state appellate ruling of first impression, considering the value of municipal aesthetics

Laura Reathaford (Venable LLP) on conflicting class action waiver jurisprudence after Morris v. Ernst & Young; Ben Feuer (Cal. App. Law Grp.) concludes our summer SCOTUS series, previewing NLRB v. SW General

M.C. Sungaila (Haynes & Boone) chats CASC arguments over take-home asbestos liability; Anna-Rose Mathieson (Cal. App. Law Grp.) continues our SCOTUS preview series, with Rodriguez v. Jennings

Sharon Arkin (Arkin Law Firm) chats specific jurisdiction after Monday's Bristol-Myers CASC ruling; Michael Newman (Hinshaw & Culbertson) on a hotel worker wage order escaping NLRA preemption; and Gerry Mooney (Rutan & Tucker) on quiet title actions of void ab initio deeds

A special CAALA convention compilation episode regards three vital recent CASC rulings, on arbitrability of class actions, attorney fee recovery, and raw material tort liability and the sophisticated intermediate defense

Aaron Lachant (Nelson Hardiman) discusses federal medical marijuana prosecutions post-McIntosh, and Glenn Danas and Ryan Wu (Capstone Law APC) chat class action plaintiff compensation, as clarified by Laffitte v. Robert Half Int'l

Rex Heinke (Akin Gump) discusses class arbitration after 'Sandquist;' Ben Feuer (Cal. App. Law Grp.) previews an OT2016 case considering the separation of church and state

Jean-Paul Jassy (Jassy Vick Carolan) discusses how a law against disparaging trademarks might fall; Anna-Rose Mathieson (Cal. App. Law Grp.) previews 'Moore v. Texas,' an OT2016 case considering when a defendant's mental handicap renders execution cruel and unusual

Brian Morris discusses prosecutorial immunity after 'Garmon v. County of LA;' Ben Feuer previews an OT2016 case that regards race and capital punishment

Ben Feuer (Cal. App. Law Grp.) previews a Supreme Court copyright battle over cheerleading outfits, and Rex Heinke (Akin Gump) dissects the CASC's balancing of landowner rights and government agency access.

Justin Brown (Brown & Nieto), appellate counsel to Adnan Syed, chats long-shot criminal appeals; Ben Feuer (Cal. App. Law Group) previews OT2016's design patent rumble between Samsung and Apple

John Sledd (Kanji & Katzen, Seattle), lead attorney in a recent landmark environmental case from the Ninth Circuit, describes the ruling and its impact; and David Balabanian (Morgan, Lewis & Bockius) offers valuable brief-writing insights

Professor Jeffrey Fisher, co-director of Stanford Law's Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, helps wrap the show's coverage of SCOTUS' just-completed term, considering Utah v. Strieff's impact on the Fourth Amendment and the exclusionary rule. Hon. Jeffrey Winikow (Ret.) considers a recent employment ruling that renders summary judgment a less reliable resort for employer defendants, and David Gammill, of Geragos & Geragos discusses Ninth Circuit oral arguments in an appeal regarding the LA Sheriff's Department's obstruction of an FBI jailhouse investigation.

Professor Eileen Boris (UCSB) and Daralyn Durie (Durie Tangri) regard SCOTUS' momentous abortion rights ruling, and Peder Batalden and Felix Shafir (Horvitz & Levy) consider recent oral arguments in class actions against ride-share giant Uber

This week, Erwin Chemerinsky (UCI Law) reviews a 9th Circuit en banc ruling upholding California's concealed carry restrictions; Cheryl Burgess and Joe Cianfrani (Knobbe Martens) consider the future of enhanced patent damages after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling Monday; and Myron Moskovitz (Moskovitz Appellate Team) discusses the art of oral argument