California Appellate Report

You're 39 weeks pregnant. Your baby's in a breech position, so you go to the hospital to get the baby turned around -- what's ca...

I have waited in vain today for a meaty published opinion that I felt like talking about. There was nothing from the Ninth Circuit today -- ...

I don't know whether Justice Codrington had anything to do with the timing of these two opinions, but it was certainly intriguing. This ...

NFL creates meaningless, non-binding and open-ended set of "considerations" that team owners might want to think about when decidi...

Sometimes the Court of Appeal gets incredibly angry with a particular attorney and says very harsh things. Other times, the Court of Appeal ...

I thought a fair piece about this opinion over the weekend . Not about doctrine or anything, although there's surely important stuff at ...

Three brief comments about today's opinion from the Ninth Circuit : First, what a clusterfart. (As we say in this mostly-suitable-for-fa...

Okay, I understand this holding given the relevant statutory language . But now that I've read it, when the prosecutor politely sends me...

Atdom Patsalis was a 21-year old who took some stuff; basically, he went into people's garages, cars and sheds (and, on occasion, homes)...

Here's a neat little reminder about how one deciphers the "holding" of an opinion when each of the judges on the court writes...

There are a lot of interesting Ninth Circuit opinions this morning. As well as a lot of them generally; the Ninth Circuit published eight se...

To be honest, I was unpersuaded by a majority of the published opinions by the Court of Appeal today. So perhaps I'm just in a particula...

Reading this opinion by Justice Duarte generated two thoughts in my head. First, I totally understand why the Court of Appeal releases the ...

I've previously waxed poetic about how the California Supreme Court is really smart, often unanimous, blah blah blah. Maybe the net resu...

There are a ton of wonderful things about being a law professor; far too many to list here. But one of the downsides is the obligation (sort...

I understand and appreciate Justice Gilbert's desire to expedite things. He thinks that the four kids at issue should be adopted by Aida...

I could definitely have seen this case coming out the other way, but I also think that Justice Mauro's (unanimous) opinion is entirely ...

The older I get, the more I tend to see the world in shades of gray, rather than black and white. And, as a reminder, I'm quite old alre...

It's a death penalty case in the Ninth Circuit , so those are usually long, but worth reading. This one catches the eye at the outset be...

No one likes to lose. Not clients. Not lawyers. It happens, of course. Fifty percent of the time, on average. That's the nature of the b...