California Appellate Report

What a total appellate mess .  (Summarized in eight breezy pages, thankfully.)

This is a very good -- and common sense -- disposition by Justice Smith.  I'm glad the Court of Appeal decided to publish it. A prison...

My presumptive rule is that any opinion entitled "People v. Martin" requires careful review.  And today's opinion only reaffi...

It's just so awesome when the opinion can (and does) summarize itself in a couple of concise paragraphs at the very outset.  That way, w...

Just because you're evading the police on your own piece of land -- driving like a bat out of hell thereupon -- doesn't mean you...

Three cheers for Judge Thomas Cahraman, who's on the probate court in Riverside County.  I'm extraordinarily impressed by his initia...

This is not a close case. You could make various policy and doctrinal arguments as to whether the police should be able to search a home w...

The injuries in this case (from San Diego) are fairly extreme; for example, the six-year old kid here was sent to school limping, with bloo...

To achieve the desired result, you might well have to abstract away the underlying facts that brought the case to the attention of the autho...

I thought I recognized those names in the caption.  The respondent (Zapf) is my city councilmember and the petitioner (Pease) is one of her ...

I believe that for some time now, the Ninth Circuit has published its disposition of all allegations of judicial misconduct.  I understand (...

Nearly every time the Appellate Division of the Superior Court decides to publish an opinion, it's one worth reading.  If only for its p...

"During the master calendar hearing, ICE Assistant Chief Counsel Jonathan Love (“Love”) stated that Lanuza’s immigration file contained...

This opinion just goes to demonstrate how utterly absurd the California crime of "burglary" has become. There's no doubt th...

Hmmm.  Don't know about this one . I'm definitely on board for the marital communications privilege.  What you say to your spous...

I thought this opinion was going to be unanimous.  And it was.  Sort of. Run Gum manufactures a “compressed functional chewing gum” that ...

The Supreme Court held that you can't find a parent and subsidiary guilty of conspiracy under the Sherman Act because it's impossib...

When I read that the lawsuit was brought by a beach volleyball player who was injured during a game when he knee hit a rock buried in the sa...

Justice Duarte is so, so right.  Most homeowners have no idea  of the trouble they can get into when they hire someone to do pretty much any...

I clearly have hacked someone off in the California judiciary, because the court's webpage has for the past several days weirdly blocked...