California Appellate Report

I thought there might be nothing published today -- as was the case until late this afternoon --except an excruciatingly boring California S...

Here's a hypothetical that I sometimes give first-year law students to help them understand the point .  I pick out two students in the ...

On Wednesday, I was critical of a particular gang shooting .  I said I understood why someone would make a gang challenge to an unknown pers...

Here's a neat little lawsuit. Maybe I should have heard about it before.  Fortunately it gets resolved fairly efficiently (albeit not ...

I often don't quite understand these gang shooting cases.  The facts are often identical: Step One:  A gang member sees someone sittin...

I'll readily concede that I'm not the world's foremost expert on trademark law.  But I have a tolerable sense of social utility....

It's a case from San Diego.   The parties are married, and have two kids, but it's not a good marriage.  The parties get divorced, a...

At a criminal trial, the jury says that it's hopelessly deadlocked, and after some brief back-and-forth, the trial judge orders a mistri...

You've heard the saying:  "Justice delayed is justice denied."  That principle probably applies multiple different ways in thi...

Judge Tallman says at the end of this 25-page opinion : "Plaintiffs . . . gambled their ability to appeal on the possibility that the...

It probably behooves a potential plaintiff to take a step back before suing someone and think:  "How might this look to an outsider....

A little dependency case from down here in San Diego: "12-year-old D.S [] was living with his paternal aunt (Aunt), later determined...

I generally like learning new things.  But I was horrified today to learn a new term.  No thanks at all go out to Justice Fields and this op...

The trial court and the Court of Appeal thought the case should come out one way.  The California Supreme Court unanimously reversed . I p...

I know there are bigger issues in the world.  Much bigger.  Massively bigger.  But amongst the ways in which the world has changed fairly re...

Wow.  That's a lot of stalking.  Dangerous, scary stalking . I was wondering why he got six years in prison.  After reading the facts,...

Glad to read this one . I knew that when you got arrested, they took all your possessions and kept 'em in storage.  And, from watchi...

I appreciate this opinion today from the Court of Appeal.  Justice O'Leary is exactly right to tell the trial courts that it's not ...

You got your wish.  You created a nonprofit and brought a lawsuit so your neighbor couldn't build a modest (1400 square foot) home on an...

I don't know.  This one seems a closer question to me than it appears to be to Justice Benke and the rest of the panel . Let's see...