The Latest Breaking News from California Court of Appeal

Thursday's decision in Salazar v. Majestic Realty Co., by California Court of Appeal Justice Helen Bendix, joined by Justices Frances… The post Speech to the Public Laying Out Legal Theories Isn't Unauthorized Practice of Law appeared first on Reason.com.

N.S. v. H.C., decided Friday by the California Court of Appeal (Justice Terry O'Rourke, joined by Justices Judith McConnell and… The post Sikh and Non-Sikh Divorce, Disagree on Whether Children Should Get Haircuts appeared first on Reason.com.

From last week's California Court of Appeal decision in Cusi v. Gibson, written by Alameda Superior Court Judge Michael Markman, joined by Justices Therese Stewart and Marla Miller: Alison Gibson's appeal from the denial of her anti-SLAPP motion concerns the consequences of her demonstrably false online speech. Ramon Cusi sued…

I blogged two weeks ago about Hansen v. Volkov, a then-nonprecedential decision on the subject (I quote that post below). Last Friday, Prof. Aaron Caplan (Loyola) and I—who have both written about First Amendment limits on harassment restraining orders—filed a letter asking the California Court of Appeal to "publish" the…

So the California Court of Appeal has held, concluding that there is enough of a factual dispute (under California's plaintiff-friendly pleading standards) for the case to go forward.

A possibly helpful list, from California Court of Appeal Justice John Shepard Wiley Jr., who served many years on the L.A. Superior Court, and who before that was my colleague at UCLA School of Law. Keep in mind that some of these have to do with the practices of the…

Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood doesn't infringe 1960s actor Christopher Jones' right of publicity.

Leagle.com publicly distributes a wide range of court opinions, precedential and nonprecedential, from all over the country. Unlike Westlaw, Lexis, and Google Scholar, it is Google-searchable, so when a party's name is Googled, any opinion mentioning the party is likely to come up. [1.] John D. Thomas had been involved…

In People v. Gregor, decided on Aug. 12 by the California Court of Appeal (Justice Elena Duarte joined by Justices Jonathan Renner and Peter Krause), the defendant, a naturalized citizen, "pleaded guilty to a felony sex offense that was later reduced to a misdemeanor and dismissed after early termination of…