California Appellate Report

"Defendant Edward Lewis Thomas repeatedly molested his daughter for 10 years, beginning when she was four or five years old. He admitte...

This opinion is so, so right .  And I'd have been harsher -- in tone if not in content -- to the appellant, Kevin J. Berman. Of course...

Meanwhile, in the " it just keeps getting worse and worse the more you read " department . . . . "J.P. is the youngest of n...

You can see why this opinion comes out where it does.  Judge Clifton begins the thing with a nice little summary: "It is a crime to ...

If you remember your first-year Civil Procedure class, my guess is that you'll recall that res judicata -- issue and claim preclusion --...

I know that we're talking in this opinion about someone who's confused a lot, but I too was confused by this sentence (with an addi...

Lest there be any doubt, domestic violence doesn't only harm the direct participants thereto: "Sergio D., the presumed father of ...

I'm sympathetic to -- and on board with -- the result of this opinion .  Which involves res judicata and a ton of other civil procedure ...

It's a slow start of the week here in California.  Nothing published from the Ninth Circuit.  Only one published opinion thus far from ...

In 2004, California passed a law that prohibited force-feeding ducks or geese to produce foie gras (or, more significantly, prohibited sale ...

Sometimes the chambers of one of the judges on a panel writes a lengthy bench memorandum/draft opinion, which it hopes will eventually becom...

Sometimes cases are worth mentioning not because they're particularly interesting, but rather simply because they might be helpful to th...

This isn't what you expect to see at all. A group of seven people decide to rob Monaco Jewelers in lovely San Juan Capistrano.  A pre...

I had to read this morning's opinion from the Court of Appeal a couple of times just to make clear that I was reading it correctly.  I ...

I'm usually not a fan of the California Supreme Court reaching out to depublish an opinion by the Court of Appeal. But here's a go...

It's a natural human tendency to become more persuaded over time about the validity of your own articulated beliefs.  Not everyone does ...

There have been only two published Court of Appeal opinions thus far in September. The one published today , after the long Labor Day week...

I'm just fine with soft pedaling the facts a bit when the issue is a legal one.  Particularly when you're dealing with a grant of su...

Someone steals something (a phone) that costs $900, but with sales tax, it would cost $972. Whether that's commercial burglary (a felo...

It's not that I don't disagree with the result of this case .  I do.  Or its reasoning.  Which is indeed based on a correct reading ...