Free SCOCA Conference June 10

Friday June 10, 2022 @ 9:00am to 4:00pm
Broadcast live from the California Supreme Court conference center.
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The California Constitution Center presents its conference on the California Supreme Court, in partnership with: Institute of Governmental Studies, Citrin Center, Bar Association of San Francisco, Alameda County Bar Association, California Academy of Appellate Lawyers, Hastings Law Journal, Santa Clara Law Review, UC Davis Law Review, San Diego Law Review, and California Law Review. This free event is eligible for six hours of MCLE credit.
The tentative program looks like this:

• Chief Justice keynote discussing the pandemic’s effects on the judicial branch, the Judicial Council’s efforts to continue providing access to justice, the successes and lessons of remote appearances that should continue to improve courthouse availability. We may discuss how the pandemic’s lessons about conducting government remotely can improve civic engagement and access to the governing process.
• Major recent decisions review as a discussion with David Ettinger (Horvitz & Levy) about the court’s decisions in 2021.
• Sixth Circuit Chief Judge Jeffrey Sutton will discuss his views on state constitutions, federalism, and securing protections for individual liberty by focusing on state constitutions.
• Justice Kruger may discuss the court’s consensus process and the differences between SCOTUS and SCOCA, as described in a SCOCAblog article to be published with the conference that compares the two courts on polarization, partisan voting behavior, and consensus rates.
• A conversation with Justice Guerrero to welcome her to the court, and discuss her views on certain topics.
• Justices Corrigan, Jenkins, and Guerrero may review their respective experiences on the Court of Appeal and SCOCA, and contrast the dockets and case-deciding procedures of the two courts.
• Justice Groban on working in the governor’s office and reflect on government process in the executive versus the judiciary, and on the results he observes from his judicial selection process.