Tuesday, March 9, 2021

Appellate articles of note

This weekend the LA Times ran two pieces that quoted our current Chief Justice, her predecessor, and the former Chief of the Ninth. Check it out here.

Today's DJ runs a letter from appellate specialist Charlie Bird, titled Implicit arguments to not explain 'Justice Delayed,' which attacks Myron Moskovitz's March 1 column. Charlie writes that Myron's implicit argument--"that making appellate judges work harder will impair the qualify of their decisions," so that "long delay is the price the people of California pay for careful and accurate appellate justice"--is bogus (and defames research attorneys). In short, the column fails to prove that "reasonable speed can be acieved only by impairing the substance of justice."

The DJ also runs an excerpt from Todd Peppers' "Of Courtiers & Princes: Stories of Lower Court Clerks
and Their Judges" (UVA Press 2021), in California's Technicolor clerkship: Rose Bird and her clerks.

Bloomberg Law has U.S. Courts Considering Changes to Amicus Brief Funding Rules

The AMICUS Act would have required amicus filers submitting three or more briefs in the Supreme Court or appeals courts within a calendar year to disclose funders that backed either 3% of the group’s annual revenue or more than $100,000.

There have also been many articles about CJ Roberts' recent solo dissent, but the most interesting article on that may be here: When the Chief Stands Alone