California Appellate Report

Remember that Humane Society video from 2008 that showed "downer" cows -- cows unable to stand or walk without assistance -- being...

Words to the wise: Hikes up Mount Kilimanjaro aren't always fun .

This morning's opinion may give some insight into the nature of police work . Someone robs a Shell station in Sacramento at gunpoint on ...

Father has his kids taken away but wants them back. However, it's going to take a lot -- and I mean, a lot -- of rehabilitation before t...

I'll just tell the story on this one : "Defendant was 18 years old when she gave birth to her son, later named Cameron, in April 20...

Don't use an industrial heater inside a camper or tent. You can die . I remember fondly using a Coleman heater when we would go on our y...

Let's say you're an illegal alien. Worse (for you), you were deported in 2003. Even worse, this transpired after you pled guilty t...

I'm excited to be able to describe an opinion of the California Supreme Court in a single sentence that merely links to a movie clip. A...

We've got a lot of legal doctrines that shield the jury room from scrutiny. We know they're making sausage in there. We don't ...

The caption of this case is In Re Marriage of MacManus . Which is otherwise unexceptional. As is the issue in the appeal. But upon reading...

If you sign on with the screen name "horneyguy59405" -- 59405 being a zip code in Great Falls, Montana, where you live -- and all ...

Want to see an example of insurance bad faith? Something that even the trial court described as "really terrible," "really, ...

"Addison received very poor grades and scored below the first percentile on standardized tests during her ninth-grade year in 2002-2003...

Here's a combination that's never good: (1) delusional paranoia, and (2) an obsession with Molotov cocktails. Particularly in a guy...

Uh oh. It's an opinion by Judge Noonan . A concurrence by Judge Fisher. And a dissent by Judge Reinhardt. Look out! Here comes the ...

Sorry, Anna Nicole Smith. (Or, more accurately, the spirit of Vickie Lynn Marshall, her 3-year old daughter Danniellynn Stern -- the heir t...

It's a California Supreme Court death penalty opinion. So I don't have to tell you how it's coming out, or what the vote's g...

We don't have a plethora of published Ninth Circuit opinions coming out of Guam. Interestingly, though, while I haven't run the numb...

I agree that when a statute says that a penalty of $20 a day "shall" be imposed upon a taxpayer that fails to timely file a tax re...

The Moses in this case is not exactly like the other Moses . Unless history somehow failed to record that the old Moses -- like the curren...