California Appellate Report

One of the things you can do as a criminal defendant is to try to gum up the works. Make a motion to represent yourself, then ask for a law...

Judge Tallman, joined by Judges Rymer and Kleinfeld, opens the dissenting opinion carefully. It starts with the following initial paragraph:...

Lawyers get sued for malicious prosecution. It happens. When they do, they almost invariably file anti-SLAPP motions. Rightly so. There...

What a nightmare. A husband and wife have seven children: Christopher (who's now 16), twins William and Kayle (who are 11), and quadrup...

It's a death penalty habeas case out of Arizona. The panel consists of Judges Betty Fletcher, Marsha Berzon, and Johnnie Rawlinson. Thr...

The Ninth Circuit graciously reminds us this morning that it's not 1973. Let's go back for a moment to that point in history. Presi...

You see a relatively high amount of incompetence in immigration court. Cookie-cutter petitions. Excessive fees for doing nothing. Horrible b...

Don't use Limewire if you have kiddie porn on your computer . Or any other peer-to-peer network, for that matter. It's not a Fourth...

There's only one published opinion from the Ninth Circuit today . The first one, I might add, in almost a week. Fortunately, it's ...

Nothing from the Ninth Circuit in two days. Nothing from the California Court of Appeal today. It's a lazy, lazy four- or five-day wee...

Here's the first paragraph of the factual section of this opinion earlier today: "The Sureños and Norteños are rival street gangs....

Rarely do I change my opinion as radically as I did when I read this case . I'll describe my reaction temporally. The first thing I not...

They say -- okay, even I say -- that the en banc draw doesn't always matter. Which I believe, if only because I say it. But sometimes i...

You're a police officer who sees a group of people hanging out in gangland in typical gang colors and, believing that one of them might ...

Most people know what Title Nine entails. At least generally. So much so that even the women's apparel manufacturer with that name get...

Sometimes being smart is a bad thing . Here, for example, Oakland attorney Jeremy Friedman files a potentially lucrative qui tam suit agai...

Judge Kleinfeld does a good job of making this somewhat complicated bankruptcy case clear , and writes concisely and persuasively. But I...

I'm glad the Court of Appeal (eventually) elected to publish this one . Because it's right, and if trial courts are holding otherwi...

Here's another case that will go en banc . It's a high-profile case, involving high profile issues: Here, what sentence should be g...

The Ninth Circuit's web site lists the "case origin" for every published opinion; basically, what district it came from. You c...