California Appellate Report

I readily concede that I know only a tiny bit about what it takes to become an attorney in California if you've graduated from an unaccr...

The California Supreme Court should grant review of this Court of Appeal opinion . Even if it's right. Whether you're convicted of m...

This seems like an easy decision with which to comply -- as long as you're aware of it beforehand. Can a judge order someone to pretrial...

Given that marijuana is legal in Alaska and that the feds generally don't prosecute the stuff, it seems incredibly harsh to entirely dep...

This opinion of the California Supreme Court -- in response to the Ninth Circuit's certified question -- is unanimous, and reading Justi...

I'm fairly confident that this is all about pretext. But given that the Supreme Court is fine with allowing pretextual traffic stops, my...

I'm not exactly sure why Justice Wiley decided to publish this opinion , since it seems fairly clearly to make no new law and merely hol...

Two thoughts sprung to my mind when I read this opinion : (1) What an incredible waste of taxpayer money when a county (here, Santa Cruz Cou...

Judges Forrest and Thomas disagree on whether the law is "clearly established" that it's not okay for police officers to use ...

That darn Westlaw. Always messing up circuit precedent by placing an unjustified red flag on cases that were not, in fact, overruled. So say...

Michael Lewis, age 37, has a lengthy rap sheet, and his latest offense was a first-degree murder conviction (he shot the victim half a dozen...

Everything that Judge Callahan says and does here is exactly right . And -- full disclosure -- I say that even though I have a good friend w...

Pretty much everyone -- including but not limited to Earl Warren to Stanley Mosk -- thought that California didn't allow one person to r...

Since nothing in the federal or state constitutions expressly requires the governor of California to act on commutation petitions within a s...

I get what Justice Gilbert is saying in his dissent here . I really do. And it's true that the defendant here appears to have been caugh...

One of the slightly bad things about having old(er) people around is that they might be stuck in the traditional way of doing things and unj...

I'm confident that Justice Baltodano is right here , and it points out an interesting way to avoid arbitration that I hadn't conside...

There's no reason why the police have to search your backpack (without a warrant) after they've already released you from the police...

Justice Stratton doesn't exactly pay lavish compliments to Loeb & Loeb -- or its attorneys -- in this opinion . A guy (Sadlier) ente...

After reading this opinion , I am definitely going to start my own business and follow the same gameplan. Sorrento Therapeutics is a San Die...