You occasionally see family law cases in the Court of Appeal in which both sides represent themselves, but even that is rare. It's even less often that you see non-lawyers represent themselves in regular civil cases, and extraordinarily uncommon to see such cases result in published opinions.
Yet here we are. A published opinion about personal jurisdiction in California over allegedly defamatory conduct over the Internet.
I'm not certain that the opinion desperately needed to be published, since it's largely fact-specific about this particular case. But it reverses, so at least one trial judge could use a little edification.
Now they all can learn.
