Appellatey appointments

Today's DJ has Newsom nominates Earl to presiding justice of 3rd District, taps associate justices to 2nd and 4th districts which quotes "Retired appellate attorney Jon B. Eisenberg, who lodged complaints about the case backlogs with the Commission on Judicial Performance, called Earl “the right person for a fresh restart.”" The Recorder has 3 Appellate Judges Among Newsom’s Latest Batch of Court Nominees.

Other nominees with appellatey backgrounds include: 

• Gonzalo Martinez was as deputy solicitor general in the California Attorney General’s Office (2017- 2019) and specialized in appellate matters at Squire Patton Boggs (2007 to 2017).
• "Daniel L. Alexander will serve as a judge in Los Angeles County. He has been a senior appellate court attorney for the 2nd District Court of Appeal since 2017." He also served as a Law Clerk at the Supreme Court of Texas from 2000 to 2001.
• And Jessica Konstradt appointed to LASC is the daughter of Justice Helen Bendix.

And today is Cesar Chavez Day, a California judicial holiday.

The cover story for the April 2023 issue of ABA Journal is Supreme Preparation: What attorneys go through before facing the nine. The issue also has Art Lien sketched court figures for 45 years, from blockbuster cases to the arcane.

Bloomberg Law has Female Justices Still Interrupted at Argument, But Barrett Less -- Emory Law School’s Tonja Jacobi says her updated data shows that female US Supreme Court justices are still being interrupted more during oral argument than males, even after changes to the questioning procedure. Conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett is interrupted less than her female colleagues, but more than her male ones, suggesting ideology is another factor in who gets to speak, Jacobi says.