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
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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
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
CCP 170.6(a)(2)
The Recorder has CALG’s Robert Roth’s Your Appellate Get Out of Jail Free Card — Attorneys might not realize the second paragraph section 170.6(a)(2) provides that either party can exercise an additional peremptory challenge against the trial judge. (On this same
Standards of Review article; Watford talks
Judge Kira Klatchko and Quinn Keefer have an article in the University of the Pacific Law Review here: Judicial Backgrounds Influence the Standard of Review Judicial Backgrounds Influence the Standard of ReviewOur research, however, supports those scholars who posit