Case notes

This pic works for both cases!

This unpub'd case, with the unlikely caption Chinese Gospel Church v. City and County of San Francisco, from 1/4's Justice Tucher appears to be the first civil California appellate opinion about a "pissoir."

In other case news, this newly published case from 2/4 has gotten a lot of attention, and has an interesting appellate angle: What does the Court of Appeal mean when it says "parties to bear their own costs" at the end of a decision? Well, it doesn't mean that a prevailing party is precluded from seeking statutory attorneys' fees! See Attorney Fees Aren't Costs in Appellate Court in the MetNews and 'I Made the Mistake of Representing Myself': Attorney Give up Years-Long Fight Over $300 in The Recorder.