California Appellate Report

Don't send kiddie porn over gmail.  Google looks for it . It's a fairly chilling case from San Diego about how various women get ...

"In 2014, a single Riverside County Superior Court judge signed 602 orders authorizing wiretaps. To put that in perspective, all other ...

What a difference the panel makes. Agustin Ortega-Lynch gets caught helping to organize a cockfight, and the United States wants to deport h...

In one way, it's a routine offense :  burglary.  But in many ways, it's a strange couple of crimes.  There's clearly something a...

Defendant Villa is 28 and his girlfriend (and the mother of his child) is 18. "While driving with his girlfriend, Jane Doe, and their i...

David Zorich is eligible for potential resentencing if the vehicle he stole in 1997 was worth $525 or less.  That vehicle was (accordingly t...

When I read opinions, I sometime think:  "There but for the grace of God go I."  Or at least I try  to think that.  Whether as a v...

I wasn't overly interested in this opinion for the underlying legal doctrine, which involves the relevant limitations period for judici...

We rightly get irate at countries in which people are sometimes held without trial for years.  That's not right.  It's not due proce...

The relevant ethical rule says that a lawyer who's likely to be a witness can't represent a client "at trial."  But the Co...

I can't say that I knew much about how jockeys get selected and paid in horses races before today.  But as a result of this opinion , I ...

Here's some evidence that the law has gotten marginally more rational over the last hundred years. Bail is set for a particular crimina...

This is a slightly older case that I read a little while back, but it came into my head as a result of a particular conversation I had earli...

Justice Gilbert starts this opinion by saying:  "Alter egos of a judgment debtor appeal an order amending the judgment to add them as ...

"During closing argument, at the end of his rebuttal, the prosecutor told the jury that the presumption of innocence no longer applied....

Chief Judge Thomas and Judge Friedland think that the jury properly found the police officer liable.  Judge Bennett disagrees.  Here are the...

Another routine Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act case involving a Pacific non-whiting groundfish fishery.  You see t...

This one is not entirely unexpected . A Ninth Circuit panel unanimously decided around a year ago that Catherine Torres (and people like he...

Cheating on a firefighter promotion exam :  unusual.  (I would hope, anyway). Finding out about this cheating only after the battalion chief...

It's always a no-win situation if you're a justice on the Court of Appeal and you've got to decide a case like this one .  It in...