California Appellate Report

Here's an interesting way to write an opinion .  You typically don't see the identities of the appellate counsel getting so much pla...

You can tell that the opinion is going to be a fairly lengthy one when the summary prepared by the staff of the Ninth Circuit is, as here , ...

Someone who puts on an electronic music festival -- here, Live Nation -- owes a duty to protect its patrons from overdosing on MDMA. So hold...

Jeffrey Foley is the grandfather of identical twins.  He molests one of them, who immediately reports it, and he's tried and convicted a...

Both the majority and the dissent agree that Amer Alhaggagi is a messed-up kid.  They just disagree over the nature of the mess. Judge Smith...

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....