California Appellate Report

Not much to speak of lately on the California appellate front. No published Ninth Circuit opinions today, and only one published Court of Ap...

For California state court civil litigators, this might be the most important Court of Appeal decision to come out this year . Despite the f...

After reading this opinion , I so desperately want to drive down there. Desperately So much so that I thought about not writing this post an...

This seems like a pretty sweet way to circumvent Proposition 218 . Proposition 218 was adopted in 1996 and makes sure that cities can't ...

It's always disturbed me that California DAs get to effectively bounce pro-defendant judges from criminal dockets through blanket peremp...

I'll forthrightly state that, at the outset, I was dubious about this Ninth Circuit holding . But, in the end, the opinion by Judge Lasn...

There's a lot to be said favorably about this opinion. Starting with its opening paragraph , which nicely summarizes its holding: "...

It's definitely torture. But you can't sue for it . I'm always shocked whenever I read historical pieces about how certain count...

If you're in the 99th percentile of doctors who prescribe opioids, as a lawyer, I strongly recommend that you do not write in your diary...

Three years before George Floyd, this happened , with eerily similar facts. I would guess that today's result was influenced, if only in...

See which Ninth Circuit judge most closely approximates your views in this one. Hector Cervantes-Torres was brought to the United States by ...

It's hard to find sympathy for a prisoner already serving a life sentence who's sentenced to death for killing his cellmate. Not sur...

The plaintiff's attorney here has filed numerous meritless lawsuits trying to get admitted to the federal courts in California even thou...

Justice Petrou seems absolutely correct here . Yes, there was an enforceable oral settlement agreement in front of a judicial officer, which...

There are some immigration cases where the petitioner is fairly sympathetic. Other cases tug less on one's heartstrings. Here, Eliel Nun...

Rene Lemus-Escobar applied for asylum in 1992 and has been in the midst of immigration proceedings for the past 33 years. That's a long ...

The middle of today's Ninth Circuit opinion contains the following passage: "What happened goes beyond prosaic misconduct. The jur...

You read about a fair number of religions when you peruse the various appellate opinions. Most of them are familiar, but on occasion, you le...

During COVID-19, it was more difficult for the Kake Tribe, which is located in rural Alaska, to get sufficient food to eat. So, pursuant to ...

It just seems to me a horribly bad idea -- both practically and legally -- to post on your Facebook page "a picture of three Elk Grove ...

Most readers have probably violated this California statute. I know that I have. (In my defense, extraordinarily rarely.) So it's probab...

A pro-animal rights group protests a pet store in a Temecula shopping mall because the store allegedly buys its dogs from a puppy mill. Mall...

Today's Ninth Circuit opinion arose across the street from my home. A group of yoga instructors teach yoga for "free" (they a...

You can readily understand from the underlying evidence why the California Supreme Court unanimously holds today that there was insufficien...

It's indeed unfortunate. But I have to agree with Justice Greenwood . In a juvenile dependency case, where the issue is whether a 17-yea...

Are there many published appellate opinions involving former major league baseball players seeking workers' compensation benefits? I dou...

I like the scam. Learn about a half million dollar settlement somehow, then spoof a series of emails to counsel for defendant -- here, Tyson...

Namir Greene gets sentenced to 10 years in prison for robbing a convenience store and a gas station during a three week period, but the Nint...

Yeah, I'm sure that a dealer who buys $15,000 of fentanyl a week is precisely the type of guy who can understand during the midst of a ...

It doesn't matter what you've done, or why you don't want the police to stop you. Don't speed away in your car. Especially i...

The Temecula Valley Unified School District passed a rule that prohibits teacher from teaching a variety of doctrines ostensibly derived fro...

Traffic ticket law. An underappreciated field. You rarely get published opinions in the area, and when you do, as here, they're usually ...

Want to check out a variety of full color photographs of nearly-nude men in a Ninth Circuit opinion? Judge Lee provides .