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Losing Confidence in Confidentiality: Do Expanding Exceptions to the Attorney-Client Privilege Gut Its Purpose?
Engage Volume 13, Issue 1, March 2012
True or false: attorney-client communications, simply speaking, are privileged? False, both under law and—more importantly—in...
State "Anti-SLAPP" Statutes Codify First Amendment Doctrine Protecting a Corporation's Right to Petition
Engage, Volume 11, Issue 2
On January 21, 2010, the Supreme Court found in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission that...
Homeschooling Battle in California
A constitutional crisis hit California this spring, although it was noticed more for its social...
The Supreme Court and Judicial Restraint: Philip Morris USA v. W
Judicial pragmatists have implicitly ceded the moral high ground to more restrained approaches to constitutional...
California Supreme Court Both Limits and Extends Punitive Damages
The California Supreme Court has decided a pair of punitive damage cases, Simon v. Sao...