Legal scholars have long debated the role and influence of academic writing on judicial decisionmaking. The optimistic view holds that scholarship provides courts with rigorous analysis, empirical data, historical context, and normative frameworks that improve legal reasoning.

(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.