Obligations reduced to a promissory note are often accompanied by a written guaranty. The law treats the guaranty as an independent obligation. A case recently decided by California’s First District ...

There is a longstanding debate about whether traditional grading—letter grades based on a student’s content knowledge, classroom behavior, and extra credit—appropriately measures student success.

It is not often that we examine a case involving the doctrine of champerty. The last time we did so was on March 8, 2023 (here). We also examined the champerty doctrine in 2021 (here), 2020 (here), ...