California Appellate Report

There's a lot about this opinion by Judge McKeown that's really good.  It's a tight, coherent and well-explained disposition. B...

You occasionally see family law cases in the Court of Appeal in which both sides represent themselves, but even that is rare.  It's even...

If the Court of Appeal is correct about what the statute says -- and it might well be -- then perhaps we've gone too far. Marco Moine h...

I'm glad that this case came out the way it did.  Moreover, Judge Callahan's opinion contains much to recommend it.  She does a ver...

We live in America.  California, even.  It's absurd that we have lawsuits about contracting typhus here . This is not the Middle Ages.  ...

A version of "Name That Tune" with respect to opinions from the California Court of Appeal would be to attempt to accurately and s...

The majority says it's a weird case because the immigration judge (1) refused to admit a document -- a country report -- as part of the...

Sometimes you get into litigation through no substantial fault of your own.  Someone hits you with a car (or you hit them).  You get sexuall...

There's nothing published from the California appellate courts or the Ninth Circuit today, so I thought I'd mention this opinion fro...

You own a liquor store.  There's another liquor store across the street.  Your competitor lowers the prices it charges for beer.  What s...

Some background first. There are two types of investors.  One type are people who own stocks and hold 'em forever, and trade very little...

When one looks at published opinions from afar -- i.e., without access to the whole record -- sometimes you're at a disadvantage.  A per...

On one side of this litigation you've got Brad Barnes.  Mr. Barnes opens a marijuana shop in 2005.  The business is run by an LLC, but ...

At some level, I appreciate it when the Ninth Circuit adopts -- as here -- the opinion below as its own precedent.  That shows a lot of res...

Lots of big cities have "Shotspotter" systems.  It's basically an automated system that listens for gunshots and sends out a n...

The defendant in this case had a fairly decent criminal plan.  Not novel or anything, but it works.  Take out a gun, approach a guy in a ca...

Opinions like this are somewhat rare nowadays.   Virtually a relic of a bygone era.  Though I'm glad to see 'em make at least the oc...

I certainly can't wax as poetic as Justice Wiley.  But I can perhaps summarize the points he makes in his concurrence fairly briefly: (...

I'll offer two somewhat tangential comments about this opinion from the Ninth Circuit today . First, personally, I always blanch a bit w...

Judge VanDyke gives a nicely concise three-paragraph description of the underlying facts behind today's Ninth Circuit opinion : "Ga...