Cheryl Miller

September 12, 2017 | The Recorder

U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao on Tuesday rolled out revamped federal guidance for autonomous vehicle manufacturers, putting the Trump administration's deregulatory stamp on this fast-developing industry.

By Cheryl Miller

5 minute read

September 11, 2017 | The Recorder

A Los Angeles lawmaker says he'll pursue a bill in January that would bar federal immigration agents from arresting or questioning undocumented immigrants in state courthouses unless they first obtain a warrant.

By Cheryl Miller

6 minute read

September 08, 2017 | The Recorder

Thousands of California-licensed lawyers responded to the state bar's call for public comment about whether the bar exam score should be lowered or kept right where it is. Attorneys offered varying thoughts. Here's a snapshot of some of what members of the bar had to say.

By Cheryl Miller

7 minute read

September 06, 2017 | The Recorder

California state bar trustees on Wednesday punted the fate of the bar exam pass score to the California Supreme Court, offering the justices a range of choices on the controversial issue, from leaving the score at 144 to lowering it to 139.

By Cheryl Miller

6 minute read

September 05, 2017 | The Recorder

A federal official with an anti-drug agency has asked California for demographic data about the 86,723 patients who have obtained medical marijuana user cards, raising privacy alarms among cannabis advocates.

By Cheryl Miller

7 minute read

September 02, 2017 | National Law Journal

From one U.S. attorney general to another, Eric Holder Jr. recently offered Jeff Sessions some leadership advice. Holder's observations were not solicited. "I urge you not to force them to further defend the indefensible—the president's inhumane and unjust executive orders," the Covington & Burling partner wrote to Sessions. Holder's letter, written on behalf of the California Senate, was attached to an amicus brief California lawmakers filed in support of Chicago's challenge to Trump administration immigration policies.

By Mike Scarcella and Cheryl Miller

14 minute read

September 01, 2017 | The Recorder

California lawmakers have killed a handful of bills aimed at regulating the state's pending recreational marijuana market, an apparent nod to the governor's desire to craft such rules through executive agencies.

By Cheryl Miller

4 minute read

September 01, 2017 | The Recorder

A federal judge has sanctioned two California lawyers for civil contempt rooted in their roles in posting secretly recorded videos of abortion providers that had been barred from public release by an injunction. Judge William Orrick, however, in his sanctions order, slashed the fees requested by the Morrison & Foerster team that represented the plaintiff, the National Abortion Federation, in the suit.

By Cheryl Miller

3 minute read

August 31, 2017 | The Recorder

A California State Bar committee stocked with law school deans recommended on Wednesday that the Supreme Court reduce the bar exam passing score from 144 to as low as 135. The Law School Council endorsed setting the state's passing score between 135 and 139, a lower range than the 141 to 144 that a previous bar-commissioned study had suggested.

By Cheryl Miller

7 minute read

August 29, 2017 | Texas Lawyer

"He's a litigator by nature, and a fighter," a former law partner of Sylvester Turner, the Houston mayor, once recalled. Turner, a Harvard Law School graduate who previously worked at then-Fulbright & Jaworski, before co-founding his own firm, is the public face now of Houston's response to Hurricane Harvey. His resiliency is being tested in ways his law partner couldn't have envisioned. Catastrophic flooding from the storm has crippled courts and shuttered law firms. Here are highlights from Turner's ties to the law.

By C. Ryan Barber and Cheryl Miller

6 minute read