The Recorder has GGU Law Sunsetting Its JD Program at End of ’23-’24 Academic Year“We know—and regret—the pain and disruption that will come from ending the ABA-accredited JD program,” Barbara Mendelson, chair of the Board of Trustees and David
SCOC to Zoom
California Supreme Court to Implement New Video Conferencing SystemThe California Supreme Court will use the Zoom for Government service for counsel who choose to appear remotely beginning Dec. 5 for its oral argument session in Los Angeles.
- The court
More appellate poetry!
2/1 starts off this unpub (in a spite-fence nuisance case) like this:The poet Robert Frost observed that although good fences may make good neighbors, before building one might “ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And
SF Chron re Watford & more
Bob Egelko at the SF Chronicle has Supreme Court’s abortion, gun rulings prompted 9th Circuit judge to retire
- It was clear that “in most of the high-profile areas in which the court was going to issue major decisions, my own
The Limits of Deference to Agency Interpretations under Maine Law
Earlier this month, the Maine Law Court issued its decision in Cassidy Holdings, LLC v. Aroostook County Commissioners, holding that, in a municipality without a board of assessment review, a taxpayer whose nonresidential property is valued at $1 million
Motions to Reconsider and the Creeping Misreadings of Wal-Mart Stores East, LP
An anonymous reader asks if Virginia’s appellate courts are ratcheting down on the use of motions to reconsider to preserve error.
Here’s the background: Traditionally, appellate counsel have used motions to reconsider to clean up the record and preserve new
A SCOTUS tale & an impending AI rule?
The NLJ has When Supreme Court Pros Came Calling, Client Stuck With Local Lawyer — “I think there’s something romantic about the idea that a small-town lawyer could argue their way all the way up to the Supreme Court,” James
Name that poet!
RIP Gideon Kanner (1931-2023)
Big sanctions day!
On Nov. 17, 2023, 2/2 issued this unpub’d decision sanctioning counsel for appellant, who had “filed an utterly offensive opposition” to a motion to dismiss an appeal and sanctions request. The court denied the respondents motion, but forwarded the opposition