Litigation
Cal. Litig. VOLUME 38, ISSUE 2, SEPTEMBER 2025
Content
- A CASE FOR RETIRING THE "CALLS FOR SPECULATION" OBJECTION
- Ai In Criminal Cases In 2025: Use of Ai-generated Evidence In Investigations and Trial
- Chair's Column
- Cla Statement On the Rule of Law
- Editor's Foreword: Rapid Change Alongside Perennial Things
- Fearless Speech: Breaking Free From the First Amendment
- How Does Civility In the Appellate Courts Differ From Civility In the Trial Courts?
- Innovation Meets Tradition At the Ninth Circuit Library
- Interview With Chief United States Magistrate Judge Carolyn K. Delaney
- PAST SECTION CHAIRS & EDITORS-IN-CHIEF
- SECTION OFFICERS & EDITORIAL BOARD
- State-federal Court Reporter Comparison
- Table of Contents
- The American Inns of Court
- The Daedalus Doctrine: Flying the Middle Path of Ai In Legal Practice
- The Impact of Emotions On Judging
- Working: Conversations With Essential Workers Behind the Scenes In the Court System
- Paintings, Pipes and Paga
PAINTINGS, PIPES AND PAGA
Written by Steven B. Katz
Rene Magritte’s famous painting La Trahison des Images (The Treachery of Images) has flummoxed folks for a century:
There it is—a pipe—with the legend, "This is not a pipe." But it is a pipe. What slippery message is Magritte trying to send?
Well, it is not a pipe. It is an image of a pipe. You can’t burn tobacco in it, or knock it on a table, or put it in your pocket. And while the title suggests the image of the pipe is treacherous, the real treachery is ceci ("this"). Ceci refers to the painting— not the pipe depicted in the painting. Or does it? "[W]ords are slippery." (In re Ricky T. (2001) 87 Cal.App.4th 1132, 1138, fn. 6, quoting Adams, The Education of Henry Adams (1918) 451.)