California Appellate Report

I wouldn't have certified this question to the Arizona Supreme Court . It's a fact-bound issue in a diversity case:  Whether, in t...

There are four lessons one can glean from this case : (1)  Good police work is awesome to see.  Check out pages 19 to 21.  Wonderful work ...

I'll end the week with a story.  A story based on this opinion from earlier today .  I'll enhance some of the dialogue a little bit....

What do you do if you're on the no-fly list but you think you shouldn't be ? That's a fairly substantial question.  Not for th...

Count me as someone who agrees with the Ninth Circuit in this case that the appropriate remedy is to remand the case (as both parties recog...

This seems right to me . There may well be some people who think that Alex Tapia has served his time -- almost twenty years in prison -- f...

Judge McKeown begins this opinon by saying: "The meaning of 'permanent' appears, at first blush, to be clear. But just as a ...

When you read old cases -- and I mean, really old cases, like from the early 1800s -- you're often struck by how oddness of the reasoni...

Who's going to agree to serve as a receiver when you're (not) paid like this ? Not me, that's for sure. (And don't think...

Chief Judge Kozinski begins this opinion with:  "Segways at Disneyland?  Could happen."  And then proceeds, in classic Kozinski f...

I figure that I must be in a good mood today.  I reach that conclusion based upon wholly objective indicia.  In particular, earlier today, I...

It's the summertime.  Few academic responsibilities apart from writing.  Living in San Diego, where the weather is perfect.  Staring at ...

Wouldn't it be cool if we could just live off the grid?  No job, no electricity, sleeping in tents in forests up in Humboldt County.  Li...

Owner of mobilehome park:  "I know that the vote of the mobilehome owners in my park was 119 to 2 against converting the place, but rea...

Alaska's a beautiful place.  Cold.  But beautiful. So there are definitely upsides of living there.  Cash, too:  No income tax and mon...

The unanimous opinion in this one is correct .  So is Chief Justice Cantil-Sakauye's concurrence (joined by three other justices).  So i...

Wow . You'll rarely read a more strongly worded -- and powerful -- opinion than this one. There are only a few opinions that make me...

Here's a wide-ranging opinion that disapproves a class action settlement -- alongside the award of attorney's fees therein.  It sho...

Imagine that there's an illegal conspiracy to inflate the fees paid when a consumer uses an ATM machine owned by a different bank than t...

If you want to harken back to your first year of law school, and love reading a good interpleader case, here you go. It's the story of...