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The article explores the role of the Litigation Privilege in the U.S. legal system. It presents a framework for identifying what constitutes litigation, including needed legal procedures. The importance of aspects of prospective and actual litigation to the judicial process to merit special treatment is discussed. Also provided are relevant court decisions, ethics rules and restatement provisions about the status of the Litigation Privilege.

The article explores whether the U.S. House of Representatives could lawfully impeach President Donald Trump and whether the U.S. Senate could convict President Trump for fraud and racketeering in connection with Trump University. Topics discussed include summary of the evidence assembled in the three recently settled Trump University civil lawsuits; legal claims involved in each matter; and applicable law of presidential impeachment under the U.S. Constitution.

The article focuses on the laws governing free speech and press in the U.S. Topics discussed include issues surrounding the identification of public figure category; invasion of privacy torts; and court cases New York Times v. Sullivan, Eramo v. Rolling Stone, LLC and Bollea v. Gawker Media, LLC on the same.

The article focuses on the issues surrounding the U.S. President Donald Trump's Trump University along with presidential impeachment of the same. Topics discussed include analysis of the rights of Congress in impeaching President Trump; rights of the Congress mentioned under the Constitution related to the same; and Low v. Trump University, LLC court case on the same.

The article discusses the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines (the Guidelines) which are used to calculate the sentences of close to 75,000 defendants each year, and it mentions deprivations of liberty and the author's claim that the American Constitution's Due Process Clause grants defendants the right to challenge the Guidelines on vagueness grounds. The U.S. Supreme Court case Johnson v. United States, which deals with the penalty provisions of the nation's Armed Career Criminal Act, is examined.

The article celebrates the life and career of former Oregon Attorney General and college president Dave Frohnmayer, and it mentions public funding and the religious freedom case Employment Division, Dept. of Human Resources of Oregon v. Smith which Frohnmayer argued before the U.S. Supreme Court.

The article discusses the legal rights of employers and employees in America in the wake of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit's ruling in the 2014 case Escriba v. Foster Poultry Farms Inc. which deals with a question about whether employees may invoke their paid leave balance while declining protection under the U.S. Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). The legal aspects of accrued leave substitution policies are examined, along with state laws in America and legislative intent.

The author argues that the U.S. government has abandoned its trust responsibility to protect tribal cultural autonomy (federal Indian trust doctrine), and it mentions how climate change poses challenges for indigenous communities' cultural practices and tribal rights. Government-to-government consultation is examined in relation to the distribution of power and responsibilities between America's Federal Government and Indian tribes. Several U.S. tribal autonomy legal cases are also assessed.

The article discusses several aspects of adhesion contracts, and it mentions the rules governing conflicts between Internet-based business enterprises and consumers in places such as the U.S. and the European Union (EU) with regards to online contracts. American contract laws and consumers' rights are addressed, along with transaction costs and legal cases such as ProCD Inc. v. Zeidenberg which deal with computer software-related shrink-wrap contracts and the theory of lack of mutual assent.

The article discusses changes involving the U.S. federal civil justice system and amendments to the nation's Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and it mentions how the role of America's federal courts was reshaped during the twenty-first century with regards to alternative dispute resolution (ADR) cases. Litigation costs are examined in the U.S. Supreme Court case Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly. Procedures for class action lawsuits and the relationship between law and technology are assessed.

The article discusses religious freedom and the legal aspects of closely held corporations in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in the 2014 case Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. which deals with the nation's Religious Freedom Restoration Act, cost-free preventive health care for women, and the U.S. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). The ethical implications of the court's ruling in the Burwell case are examined, along with the religious aspects of contraception laws.