Today's LA Times has An unexpected check on Supreme Court’s sharp move right: Justice Kavanaugh
Law360 has 5 Supreme Court Cases to Watch This Fall, 'Administrative State' Attacks Soar To High Court Crescendo and First-Time Advocates Dominate High Court's Fall Schedule, the last of which begins:
Solo practitioner Howard Bashman had almost given up all hope on his goal of arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court, but then the justices agreed in March to hear an admiralty law case over choice-of-law provisions in which he represents a yacht owner challenging the denial of an insurance claim.
Today's DJ has:
Floyd Siegal's A Ruthless Court, about the friendship between RBG and Nino Scalia.
PJ Gilbert has Times, They Changed, about judges who write books (e.g., Beds, Eileen Moore, Anthony Mohr, Timothy Fall, etc.) and how judges reveal more about themselves than ever before (nothing that he did not have a column last month because he had COVID).
Myron Moskovitz has Part II on interpreting our Constitution: the voters v. the judges
Judge David Rosenberg has A Unique Attribute of Our Justice System -- Only one nation – the United States of America – allows jury trials in the vast majority of civil cases.
Law360 has Attorneys Will Now Have Remote Access To Pa. Appeals Briefs -- That's PA, not CA (sigh); but maybe one day??
The Recorder has Feinstein Leaves 'Profound' Impact on California's Federal Bench -- In her 30 years as a U.S. senator, Dianne Feinstein, who died Friday at age 90, pushed five presidents to create a more diverse federal bench in California, said lawyers who helped her vet judicial candidates.
An interesting unpub'd decision from 2/3 emphasizes that incivility in litigation is a basis for reducing a fee award: "We agree a trial court may consider an attorney’s pervasive incivility in determining the reasonableness of the requested fees."
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