FVAP opinion is out!

The Supreme Court's opinion in FVAP v. Superior Court has issued here, and the disposition is:

Let a writ of mandate issue directing the respondent superior courts to provide indigent litigants, upon request, with meaningful access in all cases to an official verbatim record of proceedings, including by means of electronic recording if an official reporter or official reporter pro tempore is unavailable.

"courts can and should imply an exception to section 69957 where reasonably necessary to provide indigent civil litigants with meaningful access to justice and an official verbatim record." (Opn. at 5.)

Also, today's DJ has an article about the Maniago opinion (by Reed Smith's Kasey Curtis, Charles Hyun, and Andrew Workman), using a golf theme to explain the case: Laying up or going for the green? Maniago and the risks of aggressive appellate strategy.