California Appellate Report

Fires rage. The University of San Diego closes down. But the Ninth Circuit bravely continues to publish opinions. Tears of respect well up...

You might well -- indeed, probably will -- get away with it if you suffocate your 87-year old mother with a pillow while she's in a nurs...

Imagine you've got a case that's pending before the en banc court in which you've got very little to gain even if you win. Say,...

Justice McDonald is exactly, exactly right . And makes the argument cogently, intellectually, and with precision. Giving a massage on a cons...

This is why you like to see incredibly smart people -- sometimes academics, even -- appointed to the Court of Appeals. It's an erudite,...

Whereas I have briefly been away from my computer, the Ninth Circuit has been busy as a beaver. And cranked out a half-dozen published opin...

Justice Epstein was entirely right to step in here and grant the writ petition . It's an attorney-client privilege issue. The trial cou...

Yikes! Want to read a creepy story about a dangerously threatening geek? Then read the first four pages of this opinion . Nasty. Later on...

If at first you don't succeed, try -- and then try -- again. Who knows? Maybe the third time will be a charm. Like it is here . Timoth...

Can't get enough of civil procedure? Want to desperately know more about subject matter jurisdiction? If so, I'm sure you're n...

It was a lazy Columbus Day for the courts, and today, only the Ninth Circut actually published anything at all. But what it did publish was ...

When a security guard calls 911 after he sees you beating your domestic partner, it generally doesn't help to go up to the guard and say...

The legacy of the Bussell family continues . This is a memorable set of cases. Which, at this point, pervade not only the F.3ds, but also th...

O'Melveny & Myers brought a lawsuit on behalf of thirty-two low-income tenants who had been wrongfully evicted from their apartment...

Here's another big firm -- this time, Morrison & Foerster -- taking on pro bono -ish representation of a plaintiff and then request...

I'm on board for this one . It's merely an equivocal request for counsel when a defendant says "How long would it take for a la...

Shades of President Clinton in this one. Who's famous for wrangling about what "is" means . But, in this case , the linguistic...

I love a man who can use both the term "aliquot" as well as the term "goo" in the same opinion. That man, in this case ...

Nah. Politics doesn't play into judicial decisions at all . Anyone who thinks otherwise is just plain foolish. It's a total coinc...

You don't see many non-death penalty cases bouncing around the courts for almost twenty years . But this one has . And it's still go...