Wednesday, May 3, 2023

3d DCA pro tem update

 

The following are currently sitting on assignment in the 3d: 

  • Justice Andrea Lynn Hoch, retired, is sitting on assignment beginning January 1, 2023. 
  • Judge Samuel T. McAdam of the Yolo County Superior Court will be sitting in pro tempore beginning January 1, 2023.
  • Judge Garen J. Horst of the Placer County Superior Court will be sitting in pro tempore beginning May 1, 2023.

Here's a published opinion from the 5th that genteelly "parts ways" with some existing precedent and also provides some useful photos in an appendix.

And Justice Beds' latest column is An English Major's Lament
  • being an English major is not a historical fact. It’s a psychological condition
  • The symptomology is insidious. Onset is marked by a lot of reading, pleasant vocabulary, and a propensity to be “clever.” Since most of the K-16 educators are themselves liberal arts majors, the English major generally enjoys early success in academia.
  • But adulthood is not always kind to us. Turns out the rest of the world doesn’t much care about past participles. The rest of the world wouldn’t know a gerund from a groundhog … and they’re not in the least impressed that you do
  • A lot of words are sneaking into the language that I recognize as English but still have a hard time processing.7 Words like “nanoprocessor” and “blockchain” and “nonce.”