Saturday, December 21, 2024

E-CTs & E-RTs to be required in the 3d

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Hooray! Here's some more movement away from paper: Effective February 24, 2025, the 3d District's Local Rule 5 , on Electronic Filin...

RIP Seth Hufstedler (1922-2024)

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  Before his retirement, Seth M. Hufstedler (Cal. Bar #21421) had an active business, trial and appellate practice for over 50 years. Seth h...

Fun holiday reading?

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See  An Investigation of the Ethics Challenge at theSupreme Court (Dec. 21, 2024), a 93-page Majority Staff report of the Senate Judiciary ...
Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Games People (appellate lawyers!) Play

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Law360 has  PBS Atty Rolls The Dice With New Supreme Court Board Game  about First Monday in October , a strategy game focused on the histor...

Sanctions watch

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Busted! The MetNews has  C.A. Refers Beverly Hills Firm to State Bar for ‘Consideration of Discipline’ for Fraud  --  Opinion Says Lawyers M...
Tuesday, December 17, 2024

3d DCA pro tem update & more

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Associate Justice Rebecca A. Wiseman, retired, will be sitting in pro tempore in the 3d District beginning July 15, 2023, through March 10,...
Monday, December 16, 2024

Sr. Status plans rescinded

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Bloomberg Law has  Judge Wynn Reverses Retirement Plans, Denies Trump Vacancy Fourth Circuit Judge James Wynn Jr. has rescinded his plans to...
Sunday, December 15, 2024

Appellate Mediation mcle program

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  On Thursday, January 16, LACBA's Appellate Courts Section will present Appellate Mediation: An Overlooked Opportunity , from noon to 1...

KBJ on Broadway

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ABA Journal has  Supreme Court justice's teen dream comes true with Broadway walk-on role  about how Justice Jackson appeared in a perfo...
Friday, December 13, 2024

New crim appellate opinion

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The MetNews has  Order Reducing Felony to Misdemeanor Is Not Appealable  -- Opinion Says Prosecution May Not Appeal Wobbler Reduction Even i...
Thursday, December 12, 2024

2025 CA Courts Calendar

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  2025 California Courts Calendar  -- Keep track of court holidays, council meetings, and Supreme Court oral argument dates by downloading t...
Tuesday, December 10, 2024

2024 noteworthy opinions article, et al.

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Today's DJ has appellate specialist David Ozeran's article  Award for best and worst from this year's appellate opinions -- A l...
Monday, December 9, 2024

9th Cir. mandate opinion

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Here's a 9th Circuit opinion clarifying that the district court has discretion to stay a case while a cert petition is pending. Althoug...

Valentine's Day CJA hearings

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Commission to Consider Appointments to Courts of Appeal The Commission on Judicial Appointments will hold public hearings on Feb. 14 to cons...
Friday, December 6, 2024

Orren gets Dunn Award!

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 Last night at the LACBA Appellate Courts Section holiday mixer, appellate lawyer Tyna Orren was presented with the Pamela E. Dunn Appellat...

Going bats over "Batzel"

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See Young v. Neocortext, Inc. , where Judge Desai reiterates the call for the 9th Circuit to reverse its existing rule (from Batzel v. Smith...
Tuesday, December 3, 2024

More inside SCOTUS info from the NYT

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The NYT has Inside the Supreme Court Ethics Debate: Who Judges the Justices?  -- In private meetings and memos, the justices made new rules ...

5th Dist. pro tem update

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Judge Gregory T. Fain of the Fresno County Superior Court will be sitting pro tempore in the Fifth District until February 1, 2025.

Judicial economy saves appeals...

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  In a couple unpubs today, the Court of Appeal saves defective appeals from orders sustaining demurrers: "in the interest of judicial ...

1st District pro tem update

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Judicial officers assigned pro tem in the First District: Judge Elizabeth M. Hill , of San Mateo County Superior Court, will be sitting pro ...