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Today, consumer drones are turning the highly organized and integrated U.S. airspace design into the Wild West. A swift course correction in law and regulation is necessary to bring order back to the chaos that is no longer the friendly skies. Ignoring this serious threat to safety would be a mistake, which will be written […]

“DJI, the world’s leading seller of consumer drones, began programming such technology last year into all models sold in the United States. Brendan Schulman, the firm’s vice president of policy and legal affairs, said the software upgrade and public education efforts have proven effective. ‘The vast, vast majority of drone users are flying safely and […]

Even before, and especially after, the Tenerife airport disaster—where two Boeing 747s collided on the runway and 583 of the 644 passengers aboard died—the aviation community has been actively engaged in minimizing human error in flight operations. Much has been written about this topic. As an aviation attorney at Bailey & Partners, and an aviation […]

When serving a non-US corporation, the Hague Convention typically applies because such service usually occurs on foreign soil. However, the Hague Convention applies only “[i]f the internal law of the forum state [i.e. California] defines the applicable method of serving process as requiring the transmittal of documents abroad.” Volkswagenwerk Aktiengesellschaft v. Schlunk, 108 S.Ct. 2104 […]

A plaintiff in a California personal injury action can collect both past and future medical care costs from a defendant who causes him injury even if the plaintiff’s health insurance company paid some or all of those costs and is expected to pay medical care costs in the future. This is often referred to as […]