In Orange County Water District v. The Arnold Engineering Company (D070763), the Fourth Appellate District examined the criteria for evaluating the reasonableness of a parties’ denial of requests for ...

If asked to list the qualities of a successful litigator, most people would sketch a similar profile: a zealous advocate for the client, a winner, a person with tenacity, intelligence, and the ability ...

Should the parties to the litigation challenging the reasonableness standard law agree to a split in the application of the standard of review of reasonableness? If not, should the court impose one?

Police reformers say states should make it easier to bring criminal charges against police who commit "lawful, but awful" shootings. But police warn that such legislation may go too far. When police ...

It's surprising that more than a quarter century after its adoption, notorious Section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934, enacted in 1996 as part of the Communications Decency Act, has never been ...

A clear, disinterested look at the state of higher education is not for the faint of heart. Jonathan Marks, a politics professor at Ursinus College, relates the following story in Let’s Be Reasonable: ...

Critics of the law argue that it is a highly subjective tool for judicial activism that allows the court to subvert government policy with its own views. The reasonableness standard bill, which was ...

Administrative law is meant to protect the country’s residents against arbitrary government actions and to require the executive branch to function as the public’s trustee. In Israel, the principles ...

After months of stating its intention, the coalition converted plan to action on Monday, passing the first of a telegraphed package of laws targeted to sap the judiciary of its authority, in ...

My message today is a simple one: If there is no Standard of Reasonableness by which the Supreme Court can review administrative decisions, Israel’s environment will not be protected. In other words: ...

The Knesset on Monday night approved the first reading of the law to reduce the cause of reasonableness. The law was approved by a majority of 64 to 56. All members of the coalition voted in favor of ...