(Subscription required) In his final column as a sitting justice, Arthur Gilbert reflects on five decades of judicial service, the colleagues and staff who supported him, the whimsical notion of multiverses and cosmic chance, and the fitting title -- "The Beginning" -- signaling that his column will continue even after "RET" follows his name.

Netflix faces no liability for invasion of privacy based on using, in an advertisement for a video, the image of the plaintiffs’ home captured with a telephoto lens from a drone without consent of the owners, causing to the residents from droves of persons coming to the house, Div. Three of the Court of Appeal for this district has held, drawing a dissent.

The Fifth District Court of Appeal has issued an opinion which it certified for publication notwithstanding its proclamation that the outcome is ordained in light of unchallenged case law going back a half century.

According to Justia, in 2023 [Shannon Murphy] sued the Antioch Police Department for civil rights violations, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California and last year, Murphy sued that court’s Office of the Clerk. According to Trellis, in 2021, he sued O’Reilly Auto Parts who, in response, filed a motion to declare Murphy a vexatious litigant. Also, in 2021, according to casemine.com, he sued the I.R.S. Taxpayer Advocate.