California Appellate Report

Sometimes fraud only gets you into trouble, my friends. Ochoa-Amaya illegally enters the United States (with his parents) in 1985, when he...

Three months ago, when this opinion was published, I said that it wouldn't be around that long , and would be taken en banc shortly. An...

These are some of the best lines that Judge Kleinfeld has written in a long time. And that's saying a lot, because he writes pretty dar...

Sometimes one can figure out how an opinion's going to come out merely by reading the first sentence or paragraph -- by the way the auth...

If memory (and very brief research) serves me well, this is the first published opinion by Judge Ikuta . It's also a pretty good one, ...

You've got to read this one . To encourage you to do so, I'll not only note that it's less than 20 double-spaced pages, but also...

Getting audited by the California Board of Equalization for underreporting the amount of sales tax you owe for your business? Here's ho...

When I went into work this morning, I had no idea that it was a holiday. Which apparently explained why the University was deserted. Not t...

Once again, I must first go on record. I do not support touching little girls. It's bad. It's wrong. Don't do it. Everyone clear...

Wow. This one is close . When I read the first paragraph of the opinion, which described the two molestation offenses for which the defenda...

Sometimes you read an opinion and say: "Wow. I wish I could write nearly half as well as this." Which was my reaction to this o...

It's pretty rare that you see an appeal that exclusively concerns the entitlement to a whopping $585.75 in costs. If only because the a...

I generally comment, at least briefly, about any significant opinion that involves a successful malpractice suit against a California attorn...

It's been almost 24 years since the murder. And Andre Burton has just now finished exhausting his state remedies . And doesn't seem ...

Want to know what being a pimp -- as well as a prostitute for a pimp -- is really like? Then read the first twenty pages of this opinion ...

Call me nutty. Call me crazy. Call me absurd. Call me way, way too interested in civil procedure. But I think the California Supreme Cou...

Here's one way to spend the rest of your life in prison . It's simultaneously kind of funny and yet deeply sad. It starts out in a ...

I like this opinion by Justice Yegan a lot. It's very short (six double-spaced pages). It has a tone that you don't usually see ...

I always knew that forfeiture and in rem actions were captioned by the name of the property; for example, U.S. v. $23,865 (and the like). ...

Faculty meetings are amongst the worst part of this job. And today's rare mid-week faculty meeting has put me in an exhausted, sleep-de...