Article roundup

Yesterday's DJ had PJ Gilbert's And the winner is... about ... well, it's about a lot of things! Including some viewing and reading recommendations: 

I commend for your viewing Supreme Court Justice Liu's commencement address to the USC law graduating class. The Hon. Goodwin Liu - 2024 Commencement (JD & Undergraduate) Keynote Address (youtube.com). It is warm, engaging, and filled with good advice for students and all of us. And, finally, a must for everyone, Dean Erwin Chemerinsky's latest book, "Worse Than Nothing - The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism," (Yale University Press, 2022).

Yesterday's DJ also had Myron Moskovitz's A Seamless Web, which includes a reminder to always consider "a series of statutes called 'legal maxims.' They are clustered together at Civil Code sections 3509 et seq."

Today's DJ has the monthly Exceptionally Appealing column, this installment titled ‘Cleaned up’ California: 7 years on -- The “cleaned up” citation format, proposed by attorney Jack Metzler in 2017, has gained popularity in legal writing, with nearly 100 California opinions using the signal.

Several California Court of Appeal Justices are “cleaned up” champions, including Justices Baker, Do, Raphael, and now-retired justices Perluss, and Slough. Those Justices alone have used “cleaned up” in nearly 90 opinions. What’s more, their writings give practitioners a road map to using “cleaned up” in ways that make the best use of the signal and mitigate concerns about bad-faith usage that changes the meaning of the quoted material.

Law360 has Justice Gorsuch Calls Colleagues 'Best Writers' In History - Law360

"This may be one of the best Supreme Courts in terms of writers that the nation has seen in its history," Justice Gorsuch said. "I've got colleagues who are, I think, capable of explaining incredibly complex legal jargon in clear and accessible terms that frankly is a blessing, I think, to the American people."