California Appellate Report

Sorry, USF students. You're not getting a partial refund for the fact that "college" was online during COVID. You lost your cl...

Justice Yegan begins this afternoon's opinion in a fairly dramatic fashion, saying: "“The fabric of the law will stretch only so f...

The opinion in this case is about restitution, and seems right, but that's not what caught my eye. Rather, it's something very brief...

It's only $150. Go ahead and post jury fees yourself. Even if the other side's already requested a jury. Yes, it's nonrefundable...

I'm most assuredly not in a position to disagree with Justice Lavin in this one, as literally everything I know about the "Digital ...

It just gets worse and worse as you wade through this opinion : "In July 2021, Garcia sent threatening text messages to a Child Welfare...

Judge O'Scannlain's concurrence here has a point . Both about the NLRB's flip-flopping in general as new administrations enter o...

Putting police officers on the stand in criminal cases as "experts" is always a touchy issue. They constantly give testimony that ...

I think I've discovered the next crime I'll commit . "On April 2, 2018, the California Department of Justice filed a felony com...

Absent the invention of a time machine, there's no way to prove or disprove the following hypothesis. I'd nonetheless bet a fair amo...

It's a slow "news" (opinion) day today, with only a single (clearly right) published opinion from the Ninth Circuit and nothin...

The Ninth Circuit holds -- fairly predictably -- that the California Supreme Court did just fine when it held that individual PAGA claims ma...

It's always amazing to me just how bad some people can be at committing a crime. Especially a serious crime like murder. Even when it...

If you litigate long enough, you'll eventually have some issues with an expert. Maybe tiny ones, maybe big ones. Just be glad you're...

I gotta give props to Justice Kelety. When this opinion was initially published last week, I thought: "Whoa. I understand Part II, but ...

I know that it doesn't matter much either way. But since senior judges on the Ninth Circuit aren't allowed to vote on en banc  calls...

I'm not entirely sure why, but I find this case hilarious . The City of Cerritos (in LA) doesn't want a ton of heavy truck traffic. ...

The Court of Appeal is right, and Legal Aid is wrong . It's technically "income" to you even if you don't get the money. S...

The opinion isn't really about this part, but I was struck by the final words of this sentence, which begins the Court of Appeal's s...