California Appellate Report

Most of the time, I'm merely intellectually interested in the result of a particular published opinion.  But this Ninth Circuit opinion ...

Today I learned that it's a federal crime to provide shelter to an unauthorized immigrant.  And that we actually prosecute people for it...

This sounds right to me .  I'm not positive  it's right.  But it nonetheless sounds right. You (of course) take a risk that when y...

We're slowing coming to the Thanksgiving break, so you'll likely see a trickle of published appellate cases from the Ninth Circuit a...

Doing this job -- or at least writing this blog -- you get used to various personalities and institutions in the Court of Appeal.  I was rem...

The first line of this opinion will tell you a lot about (1) California, and (2) where the law in this area is likely to go in the future. ...

Beware of individuals who claim to be able to reduce your tax liability by millions of dollars. Maybe it'll work, of course.  Maybe.  ...

It's a holiday today -- even though many of us (myself included) nonetheless remain hard at work -- so no published cases today. But t...

Here's something that's good to know .  The Court of Appeal holds that you can't bring an anti-SLAPP motion to strike in a limit...

Wow. For some reason, I've never before commented on an opinion by Justice Streeter .  Or at least if I have, I've never mentioned...

Here's something that never in my wildest dreams did I previously think would be litigated in a federal court: Are dinosaur fossils mi...

Mr. Vera's real complaint is that the officer who just so happened to be travelling with a drug-sniffing dog just so happened to stop h...

It's pretty important in a criminal case to have the victim actually testify in court.  I'm using the phrase "pretty important...

This opinion is yet another classic example of the Streisand Effect .  (Parenthetically:  How cool would it be to have something like that ...

Like a lot of states, Arizona allows early voting.  By mail and otherwise.  But also like a lot of states, you've got to personally mail...

Usually, when one district in the Court of Appeal expressly disagrees with another district, the resulting split is a good candidate for rev...

It's a testament to the volume and nature of Proposition 64 petitions -- which seek to reduce certain prior convictions to a misdemeanor...

This is an otherwise boring tax case , as well as one that reaches what seems to me a straightforward resolution of the thing.  So I'm n...

The FBI is no slouch. People use the Internet for a variety of things.  Those things include, inter alia, child pornography.  But the peop...

The typical opinion has some terrible, tragic facts and is depressing.  Yet today's opinion actually contains some degree of happiness....