Legal Question in Personal Injury in California

Free questions are emailed to volunteer attorneys like myself. We choose which ones we answer. We each have our own criteria for when we answer a question and when we don't. I generally pass on overly complex questions that are not appropriate for a quick internet Q&A (though I often reply to say that), petty questions such as "my friend sold me a car for $250 and it broke down, what do I do?" or "my husband cheated on me; how do I get sole custody of the kids to punish him?" and questions from pro se litigants who frequently don't even understand enough about the mess they've gotten themselves into to ask a coherent question and will only dig themselves deeper if I try to answer them. I also pass on free questions that I can't answer from my existing knowledge of the law. I'm not going to fire up my legal research accounts for a free question. And sometimes I'm just too busy and hit "delete" for all the LawGuru emails for a while. No way to tell why I passed on yours since I have no idea which ones they were.

I also don't answer mis-categorized questions, though I sometimes will point people to the right category and suggest they repost.