Tuesday, August 29, 2023

New Redbook 5th edition

 

Garner's The Redbook: A Manual on Legal Style has just issued the 5th edition

New Supreme Court Fellows Begin Term -- Four new U.S. Supreme Court Fellows will begin their 2023-2024 fellowships in September -- including a former law clerk for the 9th Circuit's Sidney Thomas.

Party poopers! After considering public comment, the California Supreme Court Committee on Judicial Ethics Opinions (CJEO) has adopted a final opinion on whether a judicial officer may accept an invitation to attend a celebration for a for-profit law firm.

Interested in appealability in the probate context? This unpub may be fun reading. The discussion kicks off with: "Our analysis begins and ends with the question of appealability."