Today Governor Newsom signed AB3013 regarding 'remote court reporting,' which allows for certain superior courts (including LA, Ventura, and SD) to conduct pilot projects to study the potential use of remote court reporting to make verbatim records of certain court proceedings.
Yesterday's Wall St. Journal had ‘The Supreme Court Footnote’ Review: Law at the Margins, a book review of Peter Charles Hoffer's The Supreme Court Footnote: A Surprising History (NYU Press, 232 pages). Famous SCOTUS footnotes discussed include, of course, fn. 11 in Brown and fn. 4 in Carolene Products.
"Though the court has deployed footnotes in many ways over its long history, no one can doubt, Mr. Hoffer says, that today, “in increasingly scholarly and acerbic footnote exchanges, the lowly footnote has been elevated to a higher plane.”"
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