As a result of street closures, significant crowds and traffic congestion
anticipated in the Downtown Los Angeles Civic Center area resulting from the
Los Angeles Dodgers’ victory parade, the following Los Angeles County
courthouses and facilities will be closed Friday, Nov. 1:
• Stanley Mosk Courthouse at 111 N. Hill St.
• Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center at 210 W. Temple St.
• Superior Court departments at the Spring Street Courthouse at 312 N.
Spring St.
• Superior Court Archives and Records Center at 222 N. Hill St., Room 212.
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Second District Court of Appeal Announces Closure for Dodgers’World Series Championship Parade
LOS ANGELES, October 31, 2024 - The Second District Court of Appeal announced today that the court will be closed on Friday, November 1, due to the Los Angeles Dodgers' World Series Championship parade celebrations in downtown Los Angeles.
The closure affects operations at the Ronald Reagan State Building (300 S. Spring Street, 2nd Floor) due to anticipated large crowds and significant traffic congestion in the Downtown Los Angeles Civic Center area.
Facility Access and Operations
Electronic Filing and Deadlines -- Electronic filing services will remain available through the court's website at appellate.courts.ca.gov/district-courts/2dca. Parties with November 1 filing deadlines who typically file at windows rather than electronically may submit their documents in person on Monday, November 4.
Court Proceedings -- Oral arguments scheduled for November 1 will proceed remotely. Select cases will be continued to Monday, November 4.
Case Information and Contact
Original Jurisdiction has a 45-minute podcast interview with 9th Judge Lee in San Diego: From Wachtell To The White House To The Federal Bench: Judge Kenneth Lee
OCBA's Appellate Section has presented its Sills Award for Appellate Excellence for 15 years, awarding it to 8 justices and 7 attorneys over the years. (David Sills, for whom the award is named, was 4/3's PJ for over 20 years).
Last night the award was presented to Justice Eileen Moore (on 4/3 since 2000)--an amazing and accomplished veteran and judge who has an abundance of "Rizz." The program also had an MCLE component with Dean Chemerinksy and retired 10th Cir. Judge/Professor McConnell presenting their somewhat divergent view on SCOTUS.
Once a year, the normally staid government office of audiovisual staffers, building architects, budget crunchers and court reporters is engulfed in fake blood, animatronic figures and strobe lights. What started as a workplace teambuilding exercise has turned into a cut-throat competition, presided over by district, magistrate and appellate judges from the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
NLJ has Many Americans Don't Trust the Supreme Court This Election; David Boies Isn't One of Them
With the creeping tide of election cases now hitting the court's emergency docket, just 20% of Americans are confident in the court's ability to be "neutral" in a ruling on the 2024 election, according to the Pew Research Center.
Many Californians have high expectations that cannabis is legal in California. This is a reasonable assumption because Civil Code section 1550.5 says it is.
We regret to inform that cannabis is illegal in California because federal law says so.
Law360 has Patent Owner Fed Up With Fed. Circ's 1-Word Decisions -- "A patent owner has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to review the Federal Circuit's one-word decision affirming summary judgment in favor of TD Ameritrade in a high-stakes patent fight, saying the appellate court is routinely and summarily affirming orders that ignore factual disputes in patent cases, without explanation." The cert petition asserts that "a third of all patent appeals are resolved with just a single word."
Law360 also has Thapar Flays Law Schools, Attys For Anti-Originalist MindsetsDespite the ascendance of conservative constitutional views, appellate attorneys are losing cases by failing to adapt, and the blame rests heavily with law schools that appear increasingly out of touch and undeserving of alumni donations, U.S. Circuit Judge Amul R. Thapar said Wednesday night in a bare-knuckle speech at a Heritage Foundation event.
Bloomberg Law has Judge Urges Law School Donation Halt Until Originalism Taught
The NLJ has The 2024 NLJ Awards: Professional Excellence—Appellate Hot List
The DJ had Former chief justice recalls wrangling with Legislature, Jerry Brown -- Former chief justice recalls being screamed at by legislators and being given budget lobbying advice by Gov. Jerry Brown.
ABAJ has Anti-abortion princess explains her friendship with Justice Alito after he discloses $900 gift
The 64-year-old princess is now “an anti-abortion and anti-immigration provocateur” with “ties to the European far right,” the New York Times said. Princess Gloria toured the Supreme Court in 2019 and posed with Alito and Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
It is the rare case that leaves us scratching our heads and asking, “Why are we here?” This is such a case. The parties are in full agreement as to the relief sought by the appeal yet remain two ships passing in the night. The underlying action was settled, the settlement has been fully satisfied, and plaintiff HK Hong Mei Tang International Co. Limited (HK) already agreed in a writing filed with the trial court to the very relief sought by defendants Grace Hua Wu and Asia Pacific TW International Inc. (collectively, Wu) on appeal—that the judgment entered against them on July 27, 2023 (the July 27, 2023 order and judgment), be vacated and the action be dismissed with prejudice. Yet still, here we are.
The NLJ has At Supreme Court These Days, the Liberal Justices Are 'Textualists' Too
Kagan considers herself a "good textualist" and consistently credits the late conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, her former hunting buddy, with making the plain language of the law the central focus of modern statutory interpretation cases. She's not afraid of calling out her colleagues, particularly her Republican-appointed ones, when she thinks they're falling short of the standard they themselves claim to follow.
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The Recorder has Court Orders Review of Attempted Murder Appeal After Attorney Failed to Disclose Suspension
Law360 has:
Atty Says Appellate Co.'s Ads Look Like Case Updates -- A California attorney has launched a proposed class action against appellate case management company Record Press in California federal court alleging that the New York-based company sends lawyers spam emails that deceptively appear to be important updates about ongoing litigation.
High Court Bar's Future: Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar |
| Gilbert & Sullivan -- not a law firm! |
The NLJ has When in Doubt: What's a Dubitante Opinion, and Why Do Judges Write Them? -- The name comes from the Latin word meaning "doubtful" and is typically used to express reservations with a majority decision's rationale without declaring it wrong.
Law360 has an interview with SCOTUS star/co-director of Stanford Law's Supreme Court Litigation Clinic: High Court Bar's Future: Stanford Law's Easha Anand
Conservative US Supreme Court justices’ reliance on history and tradition to settle contentious constitutional questions has judges and lawyers saying the new method of analysis makes their own jobs harder. The 6-3 conservative majority has cited centuries-old treatises in overturning abortion rights, pointed to English history dating to the late 1600s in allowing more guns to be carried in public, and looked to state practices at the time of the country’s founding in rejecting a free-speech challenge to trademark restrictions.
Every two years BASF has been honored to host a full day View from the Appellate Bench CLE program. Our 2024 conference will feature 12 esteemed Justices from the First District Appellate Court (Justices Banke, Wilson, Goldman, Petrou, Brown, Streeter, Chou, Humes, Stewart, Rodriguez, Jackson) as well as Justice Kelli Evans from the California Supreme Court, and a host of other appellate law experts.
Ben Snyder, an assistant solicitor general, is joining Paul Hastings as a partner and co-chair of its appellate practice, the firm said Wednesday. Snyder, based in Washington, D.C., will start at the firm in mid-December. Steve Kinnaird, also out of D.C., will remain the firm's other co-chair for that practice.
• Circuit Rules 29-1 through 29-3 (Amicus Curiae Briefs)
• Advisory Committee Note to Circuit Rule 32-1 (Form and Contents of Briefs)
The revisions to Circuit Rules 29-1 through 29-3 would eliminate the filing of nongovernmental amicus curaie briefs by consent. Instead, any non-governmental amicus curaie brief will require a motion for leave to file and will only be filed with the permission of the Court. This change would allow the Court to manage potential recusal issues that could arise upon the filing of an amicus brief without permission of the Court before a merits or en banc panel is assigned to the case.
The revision to the Advisory Committee Note to Circuit Rule 32-1 would make clear that, by signing a brief as required by the Rule, an attorney or unrepresented party is attesting that they have reviewed and verified the contents of the brief, regardless of how the brief was prepared.
If ultimately approved by the Court, these rules would become effective no earlier than June 1, 2025. Please direct comments to Molly C. Dwyer, Clerk of Court, at Molly_Dwyer@ca9.uscourts.gov, and Susan V. Gelmis, Chief Deputy Clerk, at Susan_Gelmis@ca9.uscourts.gov. Comments must be submitted no later than December 5, 2024.
See NLJ's Judges Support Proposed Rule Requiring Court's Approval to File Amicus Briefs -- Judge Sidney Thomas of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said allowing an amicus brief to be filed based only on consent of the parties leads to recusal problems if the brief presents an ethical conflict for a judge.
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Federal appellate court panels are more likely to uphold rulings by trial court judges if they were appointed by presidents of the same political party, a new study found. The study, published Wednesday by the National Bureau of Economic Research, concluded the political affiliations of the members of three-judge appeals court panels “have a significant impact” on whether the underlying trial court decision is reversed.
The court in December marked its return to hearing oral argument in Los Angeles, a tradition put on hold for nearly four years during the COVID-19 pandemic.The court’s tradition of hearing oral argument in Los Angeles—as one of three recurring locations for oral argument, along with Sacramento and San Francisco—dates to 1878.
UC Davis School of Law has posted an interview with Judge Kira Klatchko (formerly a SoCal appellate specialist).
The California Academy of Appellate Lawyers is pleased to announce that it admitted three new members at its September 28, 2024 meeting: Glenn Danas, Victoria Fuller, and Rupa Singh.
Founded in 1972, the Academy is the nation’s oldest lawyers’ organization dedicated to appellate practice. Our members are California lawyers with substantial appellate experience, who are elected to membership after rigorous scrutiny of their reputation, character, and appellate advocacy skills. Academy members are very frequently counsel of record in the most complex and highest-impact cases before the California Supreme Court, the California Court of Appeal, and federal appellate courts.
Attorneys in California will soon be required to report their pro bono hours to the State Bar. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB 2505 on Friday. Beginning next year, attorneys will need to report to the bar whether they have provided free or reduced cost legal services in the past year.
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