California Appellate Report

Hmmm. I don't know about this one . And the more I think about it, the less I probably agree with it. There are two opinions, both of ...

Who needs soap operas?! Check out the first dozen or so pages of this opinion , or even the whole thing. You couldn't write anything fic...

I'm definitely going to talk about this case at length . Which involves a probate matter filed in federal court (!) that concerns a memb...

How tough is it to get this one right?! The United States wants to extradite Cristobal Benitez from Venezuela. But Venezuela -- like several...

This one is just rushing to judgment. (Not.) The case concerns whether a school district's race-conscious transfer policy is unconstitu...

I did a double- and then triple-take when I read this case . It's a strange one indeed. The underlying issue isn't all that complic...

Judge Noonan: Could you please modify this opinion to change the ninth paragraph? There are two problems with it; one substantive, one techn...

This is an outstanding -- and simultaneously disturbing -- opinion by Justice Hollenhorst . The outstanding part is that the opinion itself ...

Watch out when you ride those personal watercraft. Not surprisingly, the water that it uses as propulsion jets out at really quickly. But I ...

This one is hilarious . Simply hilarious. In part because it's fairly rare. And in part because of both the tenor and content of what...

Wow. Freeman is sentenced to death. He makes an unusual claim: that the trial judge had an impermissible ex parte communication with the ...

Be careful what you wish for. I recently kidded the Ninth Circuit -- good-naturedly, of course -- for taking a holiday in mid-May and not is...

It's not too late, Justice Armstrong . This is a good opinion . Nice, tight, short (8 double-spaced pages), well-argued, and seemingly c...

I didn't know that the middle of May was a holiday of some sort. But I guess I was wrong. Since the last time the Ninth Circuit issued...

We all know the Marbury v. Madison move from our basic Constitutional Law class: Let Party X win but, in deciding in their favor, articula...

I don't see how anyone -- on either side of the issue -- can be legitimately happy with this state of affairs. Richard Boyer allegedly c...

Whoops! The district court enters a preliminary injunction seizing the assets of a company that's controlled by Rutledge, who has just b...

Crickey. There's some strong language about the prosecutor in Justice Rushing's opinion in this case , which reverses on grounds of ...

This is an excellent opinion by Justice Flier . It's short (ten double-spaced pages) and yet, even within such confined limits, is suffi...

Virtually every death penalty case is depressing, of course. But this one hit me harder than most . Read the first ten pages, which describe...