California Appellate Report

You have to be a true law geek to find this opinion interesting . Because it comes to a common sense conclusion that everyone in the univers...

This opinion does not exemplify the type of cooperative and loving family dynamic that you'll see in, say, 1950s television shows: ...

A mother who lived in a house in Oceanside (down here in San Diego) died, and her son in Los Angeles (Jake) occasionally visited it while th...

Respectfully, I'm not at all sure that this opinion does justice to the reason for the trial court's contrary decision. I fully und...

Two lawyers are getting divorced in San Diego. Both of them are in the Navy; one on active duty, one in the reserves. They have two children...

This is doctrinally merely a case about jurisdiction ; in particular, whether California retains jurisdiction over dependency matters when i...

I'm certain that many doctors prescribe various medications to their friends and family members. I have no doubt about that. At some lev...

I just want to republish two quotes from this opinion by Justice Ramirez : (1) "Defendant My Ngo was a “shotcaller” in a Vietnamese gan...

I get it. Y ou author an opinion in a tax dispute and think that the IRS acted too late, so find in favor of the taxpayer. One of your Nint...

The majority opinion by Justice Gilbert says relatively nice things about the concurrence. To wit, it says: "We are sympathetic to the...

I discussed yesterday a lawsuit against In-N-Out Burger. Today, Justice Miller issued this opinion , the first line of which is: "David...

I was keenly interested in reading this opinion at the outset because it involves a lawsuit against In-N-Out Burgers, which has a fair amou...

We teach law students that prior restraints on speech imposed by the government are so dangerous that we don't generally allow them. But...

When considered rationally, I imagine that any litigation between any two entities should normally be viewed as something "sad to see,...

Justice Greenwood is a lot nicer than I would have been in this opinion . Kalvin Ung stole a ton of cryptocurrency from various people back ...

Today's per curiam  decision from the Ninth Circuit seems clearly correct. Congress said that the TSA can establish qualifications for ...

It's quite possible that my reaction to the first two pages of this opinion would be different were I to live in the same location as i...

I love -- love, love, love -- the opening paragraph of this opinion . It strikes the perfect tone to me; a sense of sincere inquiry, modesty...

I was going to talk a bit about a Court of Appeal opinion today that I didn't particularly like , even though I think it's probably ...

It's never a good sign when the caption and official summary of a Ninth Circuit opinion goes on for 13 single-spaced pages. Indeed, the ...