Monday, December 4, 2017

DJ Roundup

Lots of interesting news in today's DJ:

  • UCLA Law professor and students win a string of Supreme Court reviews, about how the clinic has had seven grants of cert in the last three terms, and Prof. Stuart Banner will be arguing at SCOTUS on Wednesday.
  • Feinstein reviewing disputed ABA testimony on judicial nominee
  • Judges's dying words lamented he could no longer help people, about Judge Harry Pregerson
  • 9th Circuit gears up to hear travel ban arguments, about the arguments this Wednesday at 2.
  • State Bar plow ahead with sections' split, noting that the new entity housing the bar's specialty practice groups will be called the California Lawyers Association.
And on the columns front:
  • Moskovitz on Appeals congratulates California Rural Legal Assistance on its 50th Anniversary, in Thanks, CLRA.
  • PJ Gilbert's Under Submission column presents To doubt or not to doubt: "Perfectly acceptable words can become detestable through overuse and misuse. "Incredibly" and "iconic" vie for first place on my list of abhorrent words. Overuse sucks the lifeblood out of them."