California Appellate Report

Here's a pre-holiday case that's interesting on a lot of levels . First, it involves yet another elected official from Alaska who...

Prison inmates may well have a right to be served two hot meals a day pursuant to Section 5058 of the Penal Code and Section 3050(a)(2) of ...

You're a licensed marriage and family therapist. You're treating an unstable client. Do I really have to say it? Don't have sex ...

The California Supreme Court held today that you're not a "primary caregiver" under the Compassionate Use Act merely because ...

We're heading into Thanksgiving Week. So how better to end the previous week than with an interesting Friday afternoon opinion by Justi...

Rarely -- and I mean, rarely -- do you have a court find that a confession was constitutionally involuntary . It's even more rare to ma...

There are not-very-competent attorneys in every field, of course. But my sense is that immigration law is one of those fields in which there...

I'm on board for what Justice Cooper says here . It's not the most heinous set of crimes ever, but, still, I'll be happy for the...

Animal pee and poop causes air pollution. So you need to talk about it more . That's a holding that even -- and perhaps especially -- m...

Sometimes you read an opinion and think to yourself: "This is so clearly and obviously right. How could the other side even argue to th...

Donald and Debra Markowitz buy a house from Mordechai and and Monica Kachlon, and include as part of this transaction a $53,000 second mortg...

When does California consider a judgment from Qatar "final" under the UFMJRA? What about Korea? Here's some insight into the ...

There's some very good stuff in here about diversity jurisdiction as applied to corporations created by Indian tribes. It's a neat...

I knew that there were disputes at the margin about the chain of command in, say, the military. You can't just uniformly say you were ...

I'm pretty impressed by anyone who can fully explain and adjudicate a case in nine short paragraphs. I think that's a rare talent, a...

It's always informative when California does something differently than the federal system. It's especially interesting when the di...

Feel free to sue your lawyer. And to demand your client file, as is your right under the ethical rules. But don't then forget to pay the...

Justice Duffy decides to publish this opinion today in an effort, I'm sure, to remind everyone not to touch your babysitter. Especiall...

The jury initially awarded Southen Union Company (a corporate plaintiff) around $400,000 in compensatory damages against the not-very-nice c...

Sometimes you're reversing the district court based upon an error it has committed and you sort of feel good about that. But sometimes ...