Today's appellate stories

The DJ has State Supreme Court frustrates long battle over looted art -- It is unusual for the state Supreme Court to reject certified questions from the 9th Circuit, which address issues of California law. This is only the second time it has happened since October 2019, according to David S. Ettinger, of counsel at Horvitz & Levy LLP.

Today's DJ also has Former deputy solicitor general returns to Munger, Tolles & Olson and The Recorder has Munger Tolles Hires Former California Deputy Solicitor General, about Aimee Feinberg. Bloomberg Law's article is Munger Tolles & Olson Recruits Feinberg as San Francisco Counsel.

Bloomberg Law also has Embattled 96-Year-Old Judge Defended as ‘Brilliant’ by Colleague -- Fifth Circuit Judge Edith H. Jones criticized a probe into the mental fitness of 96-year-old Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman, calling the process involved “inexplicable.”

The MetNews has Two Courts of Appeal Repudiate Their Earlier Decisions.

SCOCA announced appointments today for the State Bar Board of Trustees and the State Bar Committee of Bar Examiners. Of appellate note, Justice Mesiwala (3d DCA) was appointed to the Committee of Bar Examiners. 

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