Wednesday, August 21, 2019

CJP proceedings proceeding

Today's DJ has Witness says he passed high school gossip to justice that spread around courthouse. Law360 has Calif. Judge Under Investigation Is Tough, But Fair, Panel Told.

Yesterday's DJ also has Justice Hoffstadt's The Jagged Shore: "the shore defining the boundary of indigent defendants' constitutional right to forestall or forego liability for certain assessments and fines is still forming. For now, that shore is a jagged one."

And U.S. Courts News presents:
Mary Murphy Schroeder: She Broke Barriers From the Start
In 1979, Mary Murphy Schroeder joined a historic class of women judges who transformed the federal Judiciary, but her law career nearly ended before it began. The night before her first final law exam at the University of Chicago, Schroeder collapsed and was hospitalized with a severe kidney infection. Judge Schroeder's story is the second in a multi-part series. Over coming Wednesdays, we’ll release new profiles on many of the 23 women appointed to the federal bench 40 years ago. Follow along to learn more about these trailblazers.

And The Recorder has Wilson Elser’s Robert Cooper on Winning a Rare Pro-Employer Decision From the Calif. Supreme Court.