John Roach, Esq. | October 24, 2026 | California Law \ Car Accidents
Early Thursday morning, a Tesla running on “Full Self-Driving” struck and killed a 71-year-old man crossing I-80 in Vallejo. The driver wasn’t drunk. He wasn’t texting. He wasn’t speeding beyond the limit. By every traditional measure, he did nothing most of us would call reckless… read more
John Roach, Esq. | October 22, 2026 | California Law \ Premises Liability
Most people assume a fall on a broken San Francisco sidewalk is simple: the sidewalk is public property, so you sue the city. That assumption is wrong often enough to sink real cases. California shifts most of the maintenance duty — and often the liability… read more
John Roach, Esq. | October 21, 2026 | California Law \ Car Accidents
On Sunday, November 1, California’s clocks fall back an hour, and San Francisco’s sunset moves from around 6:13 p.m. to around 5:12 p.m. in the space of a single weekend. For most people that means an easier morning and an earlier dark. For pedestrians, it… read more
John Roach, Esq. | October 20, 2026 | California Law \ Premises Liability
I took the photos in this post on Sutter Street, on the same block as my office. A section of sidewalk next to the curb has broken into loose, uneven chunks of concrete, right at a white passenger-loading zone near a child care center, where… read more
John Roach, Esq. | October 17, 2026 | California Law \ Car Accidents
Every weekday morning, a Muni bus pulls up at Cortland Avenue and Folsom Street and lets a group of elementary school kids off into one of the busiest crossings in Bernal Heights. The San Francisco Chronicle recently spent a morning on that corner and watched… read more
John Roach, Esq. | October 16, 2026 | California Law \ Premises Liability
Storm season puts a predictable story in the news every year: a tree comes down, someone is hurt, and the first question everyone asks is the wrong one. It isn’t “whose tree was it.” It’s “who controlled the ground that tree stood on, and did… read more
John Roach, Esq. | October 15, 2026 | California Law \ Car Accidents
San Francisco added more shared e-bikes and e-scooters to its streets in the past two years than in the decade before it, and the law covering who pays when one of them ends in an emergency room visit has not kept up. Most people riding… read more
John Roach, Esq. | October 14, 2026 | California Law \ Premises Liability
Every gym membership, rock-climbing gym waiver, youth soccer registration, and dog-walking app in California asks for a signature before you can participate, and nearly every one of those documents tells you, in bold print, that you’re giving up your right to sue. Most people sign… read more
John Roach, Esq. | October 13, 2026 | California Law
Parents often assume that if a child is hurt, California pauses the clock until the child turns 18. That is true for many private-defendant injury cases. It is not true for the government claim that must be filed before you can sue a city, county,… read more
John Roach, Esq. | October 6, 2026 | California Law \ Car Accidents
On the afternoon of August 30, a Tesla Model Y hit a Honda head-on on Highway 84 outside La Honda, deep in the redwoods of the Santa Cruz Mountains. A neighbor heard the tire screech and the crash from inside his house, grabbed a medical… read more