Today's DJ has State Supreme Court defies expectations with increase in oral arguments -- The court's published opinions - under Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero - may continue its slow trend upward.
With a flurry of oral arguments scheduled this month, the state Supreme Court will easily avoid what some legal observers had predicted would be a term with the lowest number of published opinions in recent memory.
Instead, the court - under Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero, an appointee of Gov. Gavin Newsom who joined the court in 2022 and was elevated to the top job the following year - may continue its slow trend upward in the number of opinions.
Legal experts have debated the significance of the decline in opinions since Chief Justice Ronald M. George led the court, as the George court issued fewer opinions than state Supreme Courts did last century. The recent decline accelerated from a decade ago, and the court released its lowest number of opinions - 49 - during the 2021-22 term.
Today's DJ also has PJ Gilbert's column, I didn't do it -- Judicial opinions should be clear, comprehensible, and authentic. Otherwise, opinions should take a TV drug commercial approach and list their own set of side effect warnings.
Appellate Lawyers On The Move:
- James Sigel, CAAL member and former clerk for Justice Sotomayor, moves from MoFo to Davis Wright Tremaine. (Recorder article here.)
- Justin Sarno, CAAL member, moves from DLA to Horvitz & Levy.
The NLJ has IM-ing the Clerk’s Office? 10th Circuit’s Online Chat Aims to Aid Access to Justice -- It’s a simple tool that can save time and energy for multitasking attorneys and help pro se litigants who might especially struggle with learning complex procedural rules, said Clerk of Court Chris Wolpert.
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