Overview: Sometimes trying to fix a problem, when you have no particular expertise in that field, leads you to more trouble than what you originally faced. Doing your own brain surgery comes to mind, as does writing your own estate plan. Here’s a story about ... Read more >
Overview: This Law Review, as Jim Porter himself writes is ‘genuinely boring’, having to do with Cal Fire Mutual Aid Firefighting Contracts. Specifically, do general laws allowing Cal Fire to recover its fire suppression costs from other agencies trump or defer to Mutual Aid Contracts ... Read more >
Overview: Bulwer‑Lytton time. Round two. The Bulwer-Lytton contest challenges entrants to compose bad opening sentences to imaginary novels. It takes its name from the novelist Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, who began a novel with: “It was a dark and stormy night.” But you know that. See ... Read more >
Overview: This week Jim Porter presents his second of two Voter Endorsement columns. This article features his analysis of the 17 State Propositions which are complicated, in fact, some are intentionally complicated by special interests to confuse voters. Read up. Last week we gave ... Read more >
Overview: Jim Porter’s most popular Law Review column is probably his Voter’s Guide. Read this law review to find out his recommendations for the upcoming election—for better or worse, and this year is surely for the worse. For endorsements from a moderate Democrat, this column ... Read more >
Overview: This week’s Law Review explains how a ‘crow’ and a ‘spark plug’ are considered under the Penal Code as Burglar’s Tools, so think twice before you take your pet crow into a store shopping and risk getting caught for shoplifting/burglary. And consider whether minor ... Read more >
The Second Amendment gives citizens “the right to keep and bear arms”. May that right be taken away because a person with a chronic or debilitating medical condition holds a state Medical Marijuana Registry Card? That my friends is the question of the day. I’ll ... Read more >
Overview: You’ve heard the joke where the son kills his parents, then pleads for leniency because he is an orphan? Well the Law Review discusses a similar case where two admitted ‘thugs’ robbed a home in Sacramento, killed the occupant and burned down his home, ... Read more >
Overview: Everyone throws out the phrase Assault and Battery like they know what that is! If you want to know what a plain old battery is, read this week’s Law Review, where Jim Porter rules right on the money as a would be judge---that you ... Read more >
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