California Appellate Report

Mr. Multani has been sentenced to life in prison. But he also has stage IV lung cancer. It's going to kill him, so he would like compass...

Here's another one where both  the trial court and the Court of Appeal seem to me to have the right take; this time, in dismissing a la...

It's been a busy week or so, and as a result, I've gotten a little behind on reading cases. But today sees a good one that's def...

On occasion, I'll read an opinion by Justice Wiley that I feel is too harsh or curt (or both). Not here . A plumber allegedly didn't...

You've got to pull quite a few doctrinal moves to make this opinion work. But Justice Mori pulls them all . The Court of Appeal holds th...

Let's begin the week with the only published appellate opinion in the last four days . Albeit a somewhat depressing one. The facts: ...

I gotta be honest that I liked the district court's decision better than the Ninth Circuit's in this one . It's a summary judgme...

I thought it was very nice of Justice Feuer to spend 32 pages carefully analyzing this appeal , which affirmed the trial court's rejecti...

I seriously hope that Mr. Krepchin gets some assistance with his mental heath. But, in the meantime, I completely agree with the Court of Ap...

I understand where the Court of Appeal is coming from here . The Legislature may well allow you to retrospectively withdraw your guilty plea...

This is an eminently moderate and reasonable opinion . M.T. transitioned to being a girl when she was a minor, and at 19, legally changed he...

It's a bit ironic -- or at least caused me sly amusement -- that this appeal involves a (successful) anti-SLAPP motion filed against a ...

I'm of two minds regarding the decision to publish this opinion. On the one hand, yes, it's important, and we want to make sure that...

Do you remember Pennoyer v. Neff  -- likely from your first day of Civil Procedure as a first year in law school? Today's opinion from t...

I'm often protective of professors, but ironically enough, here's a recent opinion from the Court of Appeal involving a $20 million...

Today's Ninth Circuit opinion notes that "Shih, an electrical engineering professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, ...

You're not going to read this opinion unless you're a super  nerd; or perhaps care deeply about appellate jurisdiction over nonfina...

How do you feel about sentences that are not grammatically complete sentences? Personally, I'm not a monster stickler for old-style gram...

Judge Bumatay (alongside Judges Bennett, Nelson & VanDyke) dissent from the denial of rehearing en banc in this case. It's a 30-page...

A statute requires CalTrans to sell “commercial real property acquired for the construction of a state highway, but no longer required for t...