California Appellate Report

Imagine that the first sentence of a contemporary opinion by the California Supreme Court opinion begins with the sentence: "We granted...

It may well be that 2009 was the "Year of the Ponzi Scheme," and Judge Gould makes a reference to exactly that in the second footn...

It's a SLAPP appeal , and those are always slightly interesting. Especially when they involve California attorneys as defendants. The ap...

Sometimes your legal strategies can turn around and bite you in the arse. For decades, environmental advocates have litigated for a strong a...

Judge O'Scannlain writes this morning : "We are called upon to decide whether petitioners’ convictions for subscribing to a false s...

I'll have more of substance to say about this case shortly . Which involves a facially narrow labor law issue but which nonetheless is ...

Justice Epstein seems right that in dependency proceedings, once a case involving one child is over, a party gets a new peremptory challeng...

It's a short little opinion from this morning . At least as Court of Appeal decisions go. Twelve double-spaced pages. But it could hav...

For most people, Mondays aren't typically cause for massive celebration. But today's an exception for the former members of San Die...

I think that Judge Tashima's introductory paragraph in this one is pretty darn apt: "Depending on whose version of this case you ...

Let's hear it for statutes of limitations running fairly quickly against lawyers . San Diego attorney Bruce Glasser enjoys the fruits o...

I'm somewhat of two minds about this morning's decision from the California Supreme Court . Notwithstanding the fact that it's ...

Arthur Criscione was born in 1938, making him 71 or 72 years old. He's had 14 prior parole hearings. Would you let him out? Here are t...

It was one of the highest-profile murders in San Diego in recent memory: The Stephanie Crowe murder on January 20, 1998, when 12-year-old S...

The name of the plaintiff in this case is "Full Throttle Films," which led me to think: "Hmmm. This one might be interestin...

"In April 2008, defendant Anthony Mark Alford, Jr., entered a Wal-Mart, loaded a shopping cart with meat, put most of the meat in a 150...

As your 1099s begin to arrive in this new Tax Year, let me be the first to remind you that there are serious downsides to running an "o...

Armando Gonzalez and Jose Ortiz are driving in Pomona with a couple of fellow gang-bangers. They see Hector sitting on the sidewalk watchin...

I'll have to agree with the Court of Appeal on this one . All that Michael Ibarra wanted to do was to pump some gas. Here's a case...

The Ninth Circuit holds today that it's okay for the DEA, and presumably any other law enforcement official, to come into your driveway,...