DJ profiles J. Margulies

 

Friday's DJ had Justice Sandra Margulies Keeps Arguments On Track, noting that she "prefers to keep a low profile" and "declined to be interviewed." The DJ's earlier profile (Sandra Margulies maintains close friendships on the appellate bench, keeps her own counsel), which ran in October 2012, notes that her parents were Jewish (Austrian-Russian) immigrants from Canada, and that her closest friends includes Justices Jenkins and Corrigan, with whom she worked at the Alameda County DA's office. It also said she is known as an active questioner.

Law360 has In Solo Dissent, Jackson Protests 'Sharp Uptick' In Vacaturs

• Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson used her first solo dissenting opinion Monday to call out the U.S. Supreme Court for a "sharp uptick" in the use of a once-rare procedural mechanism to erase precedents set by lower courts.
• "I am concerned that contemporary practice related to so-called 'Munsingwear vacaturs' has drifted away from the doctrine's foundational moorings," Justice Jackson wrote. [Chapman v. Doe, Scotus 21-1692]

For an argument that superior court decisions should be citable, see Michael L. Smith's, The Citation of Unpublished Cases in the Wake of COVID-19 (2021) 25 Chap. L. Rev. 97-126.