Today's DJ has David Carrillo and Stephen Duvernay's Everyone gets along on the California Supreme Court: "The California Supreme Court decides nearly 90% of its cases unanimously with its liberal majority, while the U.S. Supreme Court decides less than half of its cases unanimously with its conservative majority."
And re SCOTUS: Congress has questions about high court's 'shadow cases' [Law.com's article is 'Significant Practice Hurdles': House Panel Hears Unease Over SCOTUS 'Shadow Docket']
The ABA Journal this week has a pieces of note:
- Judge Jed Rakoff discusses new book about how to fix a broken legal system (Judge Rakoff is one of the 9th Circuit's most frequent visiting judge)
- For those who like punny opinions, see: Federal judge's opinion in Stella Artois too-light beer case is plastered with alcohol references
- Lawyers smoke cigars, drink wine during Zoom hearings; litigants appear from hair salon or while driving
- Bryan Garner's column is If you can give good directions, you can probably write a good brief
Bloomberg Law's Leading Questions column interviews Buchalter's Mary Christine Sungaila (M.C., based in Irvine, is the new Chair of the firm's appellate practice).
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