California Appellate Report

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 .

Today's Ninth Circuit opinion narrowly interprets the "bad faith" exception to Younger  abstention. Judge Bress makes decent ...

If you want someone killed in prison, I gotta admit, it seems like a pretty good business model to get someone who's already serving a l...

Sometimes the introduction to the opinion (helpfully) says pretty much everything you need to know: "In this case, the litigants seeki...

As God is my witness, I not understand why defense counsel sometimes fail to pay arbitration fees the day the invoice comes in. It's not...

I'm not surprised that the jury found the defendant guilty here. He's definitely an arsonist who set at least several wildland fires...

The witness to an alleged gang murder was "working as a sex worker nearby on the night of the shooting." She testifies at the firs...

Is it possible that I've seen a shorter published opinion than this one that reverses the grant of summary judgment on the basis of an ...

They almost made it. The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau sued CashCall on behalf of consumers for deceptively attempting to collect inter...

I'm clearly the outlier here, since this opinion is written by Judge Graber and is unanimous. But really? The police in San Bernardino t...

This opinion is a perfect example of the Streisand effect . A result generated in part, ironically enough, by someone who has written about...

There are many opinions -- particularly in high-profile areas like constitutional law -- that could quite legitimately be nominated as Opini...

I'm quite surprised at this holding by the Court of Appeal . At one level, I totally understand it. I'm absolutely confident -- as i...