Monday, April 7, 2025

Justice Dawson (1948-2024) RIP

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Justice Betty Dawson (June 26, 1948-Nov. 17, 2024).  See   Betty L. Dawson, first female presiding judge in Merced County, dies at age 76

Justice Joseph Grodin, RIP

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Chief Justice Statement on the Passing of Former Supreme Court Justice Joseph Grodin Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero today issued a statemen...

AI for appellate motions and more?

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Bloomberg Law has  US Courts Cautiously Experiment With AI to Speed Up Their Work The First, Fifth, and Federal circuits are looking into po...
Friday, April 4, 2025

New York Court Rejects Litigant's AI Avatar During Oral Argument

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New York Court Rejects Litigant's AI Avatar During Oral Argument The AP reports on a novel New York appellate hearing incident where ...

New SG

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Law360 has  Senate Confirms Trump Nominee For Solicitor General  -- The Senate voted 52-45, along party lines, on Thursday to confirm Dean J...
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

US Courts workplace survey

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Law.com has  Less Than Half of Surveyed US Judiciary Staff Willing to Report Wrongful Conduct at Work According to a judiciary-wide national...

4/3's J.Goethals retires, joins ADR Services

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Today's DJ reports  Justice Thomas Goethals retires from 4th District, joins ADR Services After serving for over two decades on the benc...

1st DCA pro tem update

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Retired Justice Peter J. Siggins will be sitting pro tempore in First District, Division Four until May 31, 2025. Bloomberg Law has  Supreme...
Monday, March 31, 2025

J.Sotomayor urges judicial independence

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Bloomberg Law has  Supreme Court Justice Says Judges Must Be ‘Fiercely Independent’  -- Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor told students ...
Thursday, March 27, 2025

Law360 articles of appellate note

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Law360 has: New Bill Would Make Supreme Court Televise Future Sessions Even With Few Openings, Courts Can Still Shift Under Trump Quinn Eman...
Tuesday, March 25, 2025

2d District Primer updated

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LACBA's Appellate Courts Section has updated its primer on  Basic Civil Appellate Practice in the Court of Appeal for the Second Distric...

Analysis of judges eligible for senior status

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 Bloomberg Law has  Trump’s Power to Stack the Courts Hinges on Pool of Aging Judges There are at least 22 circuit judges appointed by Presi...
Monday, March 24, 2025

Law Day rally at 9th Cir. Browning Courthouse

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Today's DJ has  250 years after Patrick Henry's cry, is legal independence dying on our watch?  by BASF President Charles Jung, who ...
Friday, March 21, 2025

RBG Zoom Lecture

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  The National Judicial College presents the Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lecture , "My Friend Ruth," featuring by Prof. Arthur Mil...
Thursday, March 20, 2025

Video dissent on YouTube

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Today's DJ has Federal judge sparks uproar with gun-filled YouTube dissent --  Judge Lawrence VanDyke posted an 18-minute YouTube dissen...

New Civil Central Staff Director

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California Supreme Court Names New Director of Civil Central Staff The California Supreme Court has named Erin Rosenberg as the new director...

AI "court reporters" in AZ

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  AZ Supreme Court's New "Reporters" Aren't Human Arizona's highest court has unveiled AI-generated avatars Daniel an...

7th Cir. Chief Judge Sykes to go senior

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Law.com has  7th Circuit Chief Judge Diane Sykes to Take Senior Status  -- Sykes, who joined the Seventh Circuit in 2004 after serving on th...
Wednesday, March 19, 2025

SAJEC seeking info!

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The LACBA State Appellate Judicial Evaluation Committee (SAJEC) is evaluating Second District Court of Appeal justice Helen Zukin for possib...

New plaintiffs-side appellate boutique

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NLJ has  Goodwin Alums Launch Firm Focused on Plaintiffs-Side Appellate Work  -- The boutique looks to build off the success of Gupta Wessle...