California Appellate Report

The tenants are suing for mold. The lawsuit is procedurally complicated because the property is on a military base here in San Diego, and so...

You don't see many landlord/tenant disputes in the Court of Appeal, much less published opinions about them. Or at least very few about ...

As I've noted previously, the California Supreme Court is far less fractious than the United States Supreme Court. The opinions of the f...

When the previous head of the Public Defender's Office down here in San Diego left the job, there was an opening, and in an unusual move...

The Ninth Circuit decides today that prisoners who earn time credits under the First Step Act can have those credits applies to reduce the ...

It's an death penalty case , and involves the horrible child abuse murders of an infant and a four-year old. Important on any metric. Ac...

Here's a good example of a quasi- Streisand effect as applied to precedent. The studio that owns the rights to the movie The Fall  are,...

This seems right to me . Just because a statute (here, the Consumer Legal Remedies Act) allows for one-way fee shifting if the plaintiff pre...

Earlier today, Judge Bumatay, joined by Judges Callahan and VanDyke, authored a strongly worded, 27-page single-spaced dissent from the deni...

There were over a half dozen published Ninth Circuit opinions today, which comprised nearly 200 pages of single-spaced text. So a lot to rea...

I get it. You want to challenge Idaho's radical anti-abortion law on constitutional grounds. Truly: I get the motivation. But, if only a...

I'm surprised that the Court wasn't able to get Justices Corrigan and Jenkins on board for this one. The majority opinion goes out o...

Okay, I guess. But particularly now having seen what the Trump administration has (successfully) done to Harvard, Columbia, and a wide varie...

I have always thought that California's mental health pretrial diversion statute gave potential criminals a fair degree of incentive to...

This is low-key sweet . Justices on the United States Supreme Court are -- as you know -- increasingly fractious. Dissents are  often vitrio...

I always appreciate getting back from a family vacation and seeing a published opinion that helpfully summarizes for the reader its basic ho...

It's not news to me to discover that I'm not hip. Indeed, it's fairly self-evident. As a non-hipster, until today, I definitely ...

Given the multiple brutal rapes and murders (that we know of), it's understandably difficult to want Mr. Choyce to continue to live. Not...

Okay, Baker & McKenzie. You  successfully defeated appellee's motion to dismiss your appeal , with the Court of Appeal holding that ...

Two points. Very quickly. Only the first is about the opinion itself. And neither, quite frankly, is critical (or perhaps even important). T...