California Appellate Report

Justice Wiley's brevity doesn't always work for me. But sometimes it lands exceptionally well. This opinion is an example of the lat...

Today in the Court of Appeal has been mostly a day for error correction. Three different opinions correct typos and other minor errors in pr...

There you have it. As of today , the phrase "Orgasm Cult" has been officially introduced into the published opinions of the Califo...

I'm surprised -- very surprised, actually -- that the Court of Appeal only imposes $1,750 in sanctions against the attorney here . I wou...

I'm conflicted. When I read the facts , I want this guy to be severely punished. He drives while intoxicated, and heavily so: a .18. He ...

Rarely is one's relationship with one's child perfect. But before one exaggerates one's own problems, it might be valuable to co...

To work -- or at least to work efficiently -- capital markets require integrity. After reading hundreds of securities fraud cases over the l...

It's rare to see the State of California as a plaintiff. But here, it sues a corporation that's owned by an Indian tribe, alongside ...

This is a fairly long opinion -- a couple of dozen single-spaced pages -- arising out of a fireworks display in which one of the fireworks ...

Why, exactly, are we publishing this opinion , which affirms in four brief paragraphs the dismissal of a frivolous pro se complaint? I'm...

I'm honestly not sure who to root for here. Do I root for the owner of a fractional timeshare in a condo complex near Ghirardelli Square...

The Court of Appeal holds that defendant's attorney was constitutionally deficient for, among other things, not filing a brief for over...

Defendant has no criminal history, is a productive member of society and supports a family. He was nonetheless found guilty of voluntary man...

It's a Second Amendment gun case in the Ninth Circuit, involving someone named VanDyke who was under a harassment no-contact order for r...

I do not disagree with anything Judge Sung says in this opinion . Yes, the plaintiff here -- a disabled person -- deliberately visited the 7...

My old law firm -- Quinn Emanuel -- loses its appellate attempt to recover $1.7 million in fees and costs that it expended on behalf of its...

Published opinions from the Appellate Division are always interesting because they typically involve small-value but oft-repeated situations...

I suspect that Yuly Kroytor was amongst the most severely unhappy people upon President Trump's election in 2024. He's a U.S. perman...

J udge Fletcher's majority opinion simply has the better of the argument here. Yes, the Supreme Court has held that, as a matter of iss...

I would mention this opinion regardless , since it concerns an attorney  who's declared -- by the Court of Appeal, no less -- to be a ve...

Daniel Ani would not have been kicked out of the United States had this case been twenty, or even ten, years ago. Mr. Ani, who is a citizen ...

I discovered from this opinion that Delta Dental "is the state’s largest provider of dental plans." Maybe some readers have it. R...

There's a ton of value in Judge Graber's dissent here , particularly about what it means (or does not mean) for a district court to ...

I'm always interested in published opinions that involve lawsuits against lawyers. Doubly so when the case involves a lawsuit against a ...

Be nice to your kids. Otherwise they might put you in a home like this one (in Riverside) : "On January 24, a relative of a Secure Hand...

Here's an example, in my view, of the empty formality of texualism . California's Brown Act states that city council meetings should...

Kudos to Justice Rodriquez for publishing this opinion today . The trial court thought that plaintiff didn't have standing to seek statu...

Ah, the joys of owning a condo . Especially when, as here, the building is accidentally built above an abandon, unregistered water well. Sou...

There's only one published California appellate opinion thus far today -- this one from the Ninth Circuit . Fortunately, it's somewh...

As readers may know, I read all of the published opinions from the California Court of Appeal (alongside the Ninth Circuit and the Californi...

Judge Smith dismisses this appeal (and the underlying lawsuit) for lack of subject matter jurisdiction , noting that the plaintiff -- who fi...