Bromberg brought 3 decades of appellate advocacy to 6th District court -- Justice Daniel H. Bromberg's MICRA dissent won unanimous agreement from the California Supreme Court. A former appellate specialist and Newsom administration lawyer, he seeks a 12-year retention term Nov. 3.
Before Bromberg joined the appellate court, the Harvard Law School graduate spent three decades as an appellate specialist and had never been a judge. ... At Jones Day, where he worked 11 years, Bromberg wrote several dozen U.S. Supreme Court briefs and successfully argued Cortez Byrd Chips Inc. v. Bill Harbert Construction Co. (2000). In 2005, he helped former Stanford Law School Dean Kathleen Sullivan establish an appellate practice at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan. They represented USC in Sargon Enterprises Inc. v. University of Southern California (2012), a leading California Supreme Court decision requiring trial judges to exclude speculative or unreliable expert testimony. ... Newsom appointed Bromberg deputy legal affairs secretary in 2019, overseeing litigation against the Trump administration. ... Bromberg left the administration in 2021 to lead Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP's national appellate practice. He also was founding director of UC Law San Francisco's California Appellate Advocacy Program and taught California constitutional law at Berkeley Law.Delaney's opinions draw lines on privilege, debt collection and civility -- Justice Thomas A. Delaney has written appellate opinions on privileged emails, debt collection and lawyer civility. A former Orange County trial judge, he seeks a four-year retention term Nov. 3.
The Orange County chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates gave Delaney its civility award in 2019. A 1992 Loyola Law School graduate, Delaney spent more than two decades in civil litigation, defending product liability and mass tort cases and organizations sued over sexual abuse. ... He was the California Judges Association president in 2020-21.
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