California Appellate Report

Whoa, Nelly. (1) It's the exceptional Ninth Circuit case that runs, like this one, over 90 single-spaced pages. It's even rarer for...

Your effort to manufacture a FEHA claim by disclosing alleged ongoing physical injuries after you knew that your employer had begun an inter...

" Didn't like our prior published opinion , which dismissed your appeal as frivolous, relentlessly slammed you and your appellate c...

The Bonita School district wanted to fire Donald Roberts for nine "causes" and twenty-four "reasons" under the Education...

Just because you got away with shooting your first wife in the head while she slept doesn't mean that you're going to get away with ...

A Hegelian dialectic rarely expressly appears in the pages of the California Appellate Report. And I can't in all honesty say that I...

When you know that an opinion is likely to be reviewed by your boss -- e.g., to have review granted by the California Supreme Court -- there...

Sometimes they make it easy for you . So easy that you only have to read the first sentence of the opinion to know not only the question pr...

"This may come as a shock to you, Judge Peter McBrien (up in Sacramento County). But you can't walk out in the middle of a trial -...

Just be glad I wasn't your judge, Paul Martinez. Because based upon what I've read here , I wouldn't have limited your sentence ...

I'm at the federal penitentiary in lovely Fort Dix, New Jersey today -- for hours rather than a judicially-established number of months,...

It's been a good couple of weeks for gays and lesbians in California and the Ninth Circuit. First gay marriage in California. And today ...

You can't have your cake and eat it too. Nor, as Justice Bedsworth holds here , may you keep (and spend) the money you received in settl...

I always like reading opinions that help me be a more successful criminal. Like this one . Granted, I'm not likely to go out and rob a ...

My initial reaction to this case was: "Disputed corporate Medicare reimbursement as applied to depreciation losses resulting from the...

I agree with virtually every word you say, Alex . Virtually. Chief Judge Kozinski publishes his disposition of an unnamed attorney's dis...

Nice dissent ! Judge Hawkins writes an extremely well-written dissent to the majority's en banc decision. So good, in fact, that you ...

I spent my morning reading the California Supreme Court's opinion in the marriage cases. All 160-plus pages of it (including the variou...

Politics matters. But, sometimes, it doesn't. That's one lesson you might get from the lineup in this opinion and resulting en ban...

This is not Judge Noonan's finest work . I understand that it's a review of a denial of a preliminary injunction, and sometimes we w...