The Wall Street Journal has John Roberts Gets His Turn in the Progressive Dock—Leaks from inside the Supreme Court target the Chief Justice in the Trump cases, about the NY Times Sunday front page story How Roberts
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2/3's Justice Lavin retires
The Second District Court of Appeal announces the retirement of Associate Justice Luis A. Lavin, effective September 16, 2024. Justice Lavin has served on the Court of Appeal since his appointment to Division Three in 2015, authoring hundreds of
CA Bar dues to increase
E-reporting Bill signed / new book on SCOTUS footnotes
Today Governor Newsom signed AB3013 regarding ‘remote court reporting,’ which allows for certain superior courts (including LA, Ventura, and SD) to conduct pilot projects to study the potential use of remote court reporting to make verbatim records of certain court
Sills Award Dinner
The OCBA Appellate Law Section presents its Sills Award Dinner on October 29 (5:30 to 8 p.m.). The David G. Sills Award for Appellate Excellence will be presented to Justice Eileen Moore and the program will feature Dean Erwin Chemerinsky
Building an appellate practice
The five California Appellate Projects (ADI, CAP-LA, CCAP, FDAP, SDAP) are presenting a Zoom webinar titled How to Build at Appellate Practice on October 17 @ 12:15 — “Learn about the benefits of handling court-appointed appeals, including greater work-life balance
Voights to Pillsbury
The Recorder has Pillsbury Hires US Appellate Practice Leader — “Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman hired former Assistant U.S. Attorney and Supreme Court Clerk Anne Voigts to lead its American appellate practice. Voigts joined Pillsbury’s Silicon Valley office after seven years
Judge McKeown to get the Justice Powell Award
Judge M. Margaret McKeown to Receive the 2024 American Inns of Court Lewis F. Powell Jr. Award — Senior Circuit Judge M. Margaret McKeown of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit will receive the prestigious 2024 American
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Beds to retire
The MetNews reports Court of Appeal Justice Bedsworth to Retire — Jurist Is Widely Lauded for Lucid, Pithy, Sometimes Humorous, Prose
- Court of Appeal Justice William W. Bedsworth—widely viewed as a giant in the judiciary based on opinions that are