California Appellate Report

One possible view of this en banc opinion is to perceive it as a classic liberal/conservative split in which the former outnumber the latt...

You get bonus cash if you can guess the alignment of the justices in today's opinion . The question is who gets to decide whether or n...

From this opinion : "Minor’s [and] two of his friends. . . . entered an Oakland home through a back window and rear door and took a w...

This opinion has been a long time coming . It may also be one of, if not the, most important opinions of the month. At issue is whether ...

The Ninth Circuit concludes today that the defendant waived its right to arbitrate.  And it's exactly right.  This is, indeed, a pretty...

Well now here's a strange one . I was wondering when I read it why the Ninth Circuit published the order.  It's an incredibly shor...

The Ninth Circuit holds that the "mailbox rule" applies to petitioners who seek relief from deportation and who are in detention a...

Opinions like this one today seem to me the twenty-first century equivalent of trying to figure out how many angels can dance on the head o...

"Plaintiff went to Here Lounge to wait for her friend. At the time, Here Lounge was a very popular West Hollywood dance club and bar. O...

I'm not sure how anyone could reasonably disagree with Judge Nguyen's opinion here. The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act says th...

I feel bad the guy.   Otgonbayar Lkhagvasuren came to the United States from Mongolia on a vistor's visa in 2010 and subsequently appli...

The Ninth Circuit today issues an opinion  that decides important issues about a grand jury subpoena issued for e-mails sent to and from a p...

Usually I'm impressed with how adult investigators can trick pedophiles into incriminating themselves by pretending to be someone they a...

Justice Hoch begins today's opinion by the Court of Appeal by saying: "In this case, we conclude the death of a structure's ...

This morning's opinion definitely doesn't reflect the best transactional work that Venable ever did. The opinion itself contains...

There are several things that seem unseemly about this case .  Including but not limited to the one that the panel articulates at the end of...

I'm reading Judge O'Scannlain's otherwise unremarkable opinion this morning -- he says that bailiffs don't have absolute im...

Everyone on the panel agrees that defendant's arguments are meritless.  So much so that the panel doesn't even need oral argument; t...

Today's holding by the Court of Appeal holds that a "house car" by any other name still qualifies as a castle.  And hence qua...

Some appeals are hard.  Some are absurdly easy. This is an example of the latter . I'm not even sure how the trial court gets this o...