California Appellate Report

This opinion resolves a straightforward question:  What are "normal business hours"? The Court of Appeal hold that "normal...

They've been on the Ninth Circuit together for nearly 20 years.  They've been on innumerable en banc courts together during this pe...

It's not that the California Supreme Court gets this one wrong .  It doesn't.  It's exactly right that the defendant forfeited a...

From the statutory text, it seems that when Congress passed the IDEA, it wanted disabled students to be receive the same (or equivalent) edu...

This opinion is total common sense . Plaintiffs are elderly Section 8 recipients who want to sue their attorney for allegedly pressuring ...

Judge Reinhardt writes an immigration decision that Judge Rawlinson doesn't like.  So the latter files an opinion that "distinguish...

I've always thought that the Opper  rule was something of an odd duck.  That principle basically says that you can't convict someone...

I generally like the published opinions of the Appellate Division of the Superior Court.  Because there are so few of them, the ones that ge...

For a full 24 hours after I read this opinion , my thought about it was this: I don't even understand it.  It's incomprehensible. ...

Judge Gould correctly holds that it was permissible for the district court to reconsider (and reverse) its prior decision on a summary judg...

Read this opinion .  It involves a hearing to determine whether Vinh Nguyen was a Sexually Violent Predator (SVP) who should continue to be ...

The legal issue is what you have to show in order to get relief when the trial judge doesn't tell you -- as the statute requires -- that...

One of the downsides of certifying questions to state court -- as the Ninth Circuit has increasingly done -- is that it may take some time t...

I admit that I too would be a bit flummoxed if a witness said "No" to the standard question (at the outset of his testimony) as to...

I often mention that one of the downsides of filing an appeal of an adverse ruling in the trial court is that it may end up in a published o...

A debt collector (and its attorneys) engages in conduct expressly prohibited by both the California and the federal Fair Debt Collection Pra...

Proof that judges are often parents as well : "At the time of the dispositional hearing, P.S. was 13 years old. He was entitled to ha...

I've previously noted the Ninth Circuit's recent infatuation with the word "eponymous". Today the California Court of A...

There are two surprising things about this case.  Or, more accurately, there are two things that should  be surprising, and what's surp...

Just because you cut the hair of a B-list celebrity does not make you  a celebrity .