A short excerpt from today's very long opinion in Baird v. Bonta by Judge Lawrence VanDyke, joined by Judge Kenneth Lee: ...

A federal appeals court dealt a major blow to California’s gun laws Friday, ruling the state’s open-carry ban in most ...

U.S. Circuit Judge Lawrence VanDyke, a Trump appointee, said in the 2-1 decision that the state’s law could not stand under ...

Circuit rules California’s open-carry gun ban unconstitutional under Second Amendment, citing Supreme Court’s Bruen precedent ...

US Circuit Judge Lawrence VanDyke, who was appointed by President Donald Trump, said the Democratic-led state's law could not ...

Writing for the majority, Circuit Judge Lawrence VanDyke, a Trump appointee, said California's open carry law cannot stand ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has scheduled oral arguments in a case challenging the constitutionality of a federal law banning ...

Jack Smith said that there was ‘proof beyond a reasonable doubt’ that Trump had sought to overturn the 2020 elections with ...

History will likely judge 2025 as the year Pakistan’s democratic experiment was decisively rolled back—not by force alone, but by law.

In Florida, the environmental beat during 2025 featured land purchases and development rights, which tied in to immigration ...

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on March 2 in a case on the federal government’s efforts to prosecute a Texas man ...

2026 will be a defining year for President Donald Trump’s political standing and for the ultimate substance and legacy of his second term. The new year will also unfold as a story of resistance to ...