
The California Appellate Law Podcast
An appellate law podcast for trial lawyers. Appellate specialists Jeff Lewis and Tim Kowal discuss timely trial tips and the latest cases and news coming from the California Court of Appeal and California Supreme Court.
Podcasting since 2020 • 169 episodes
The California Appellate Law Podcast
Latest Episodes
Kidnapping, Pronouns & Dragons
A civil litigant, hit with $200,000 sanctions for plotting the kidnapping and murder of the defendant, gets the sanctions reversed.Next week the California Supreme Court will hear oral argument on whether the state can mandate long-term ...
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Season 1
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Episode 169
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28:24

Wait, challenging a vaccine mandate is a SLAPP??
Apple said no jab, no job. The actor sued. The Court of Appeal holds the jab policy is expressive conduct, and thus the suit was a SLAPP.Apple Studios dropped an actor from its Manhunt miniseries over a COVID vaccine mand...
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Season 1
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Episode 168
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34:21

Does “Of Counsel” have Rule 11 duties?
Alan Dershowitz signed a complaint containing frivolous allegations in Kerri Lake v. Gates. But he’s only “of counsel” who reviewed one paragraph, containing nothing frivolous. So the panel reversed the Rule 11 sanctions—but warns that...
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Season 1
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Episode 167
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29:33

CALP-March Cases & Tidbits: Judge Van Dyke’s video dissent
Judge VanDyke made a YouTube video to accompany his dissent in Duncan v. Bonta, the Second Amendment case in which a Ninth Circuit en banc panel upheld California’s ban on handgun magazines over 10 bullets. Judge VanDyke’s video shows ...
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Season 1
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Episode 166
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27:12

Did Trump Violate the Deportation Order?
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration not to deport five plaintiffs, alleged MS-13 and Tren de Aragua Venezuelan gang members. The administration complied, but then the judge verbally ordered the administration to turn around a plane...
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Season 1
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Episode 165
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34:55
