Article Round-up

Today's DJ has Writ Review by Donald Horvath, former head writ attorney at the 5th DCA. he points out that appellate courts might deny writ relief thinking that the petitioner might win the case anyway, or might lose and then appeal on a better record, or the case might settle. Thus, "If you can show that these possibilities are unlikely to occur, discuss this in your petition." "If you can persuade the appellate court that denial of the writ will simply postpone the inevitable--hearing the same issue on appeal after judgment--do it."

Today's DJ also has Judge Karnow in Project Admissibility, about the Supreme Court's Sweetwater case, which holds that mere inadmissibility is not fatal for a prong 2 anti-SLAPP analysis. And Reed Smith's Kasey Curtis and Charles Hyun also address Sweetwater in Proper Submission of Pre-Trial Evidence: The Twin Hurdles.

Today's Recorder has Bedsworth: Me and Franklin G. West in which Beds expounds on how trust -- "earned through fairness and civility" -- is everything. (Of course, if you want to run for sheriff, you need some experience, as 2/6 explains here.)

We are officers of the court, officers of the Third Branch of a great and powerful system of government.  We have been this nation’s warriors of democracy and justice for two centuries. We are the last line of defense for the Rule of Law, which is the sine qua non of American freedom.If you can’t respect that – and respect the fact your adversary is another human being wearing the same warrior’s garb and deserving of the treatment you would expect for yourself – well, you’ve got bigger problems than how any particular case turns out.