California Supreme Court Justice Goodwin Liu Named Fellow of American Academy of Political and Social Science

• Justice Liu will be named the 2025 Roger Wilkins Fellow.
• Justice Liu joined the California high court in 2011. Before joining the bench, he was professor of law and associate dean at the UC Berkeley School of Law. Justice

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Today’s Recorder has Court Reporters Push Fight Over Electronic Recording Into Legislature — The union representing many of California’s court-employed shorthand reporters is sponsoring legislation that would allow more electronic recording of certain case types but only if certain conditions are met.The union representing many court-employed stenographers is sponsoring AB 882, which would temporarily…

 Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., announced today that the Board of the Federal Judicial Center has selected United States District Judge Robin L. Rosenberg to be the twelfth director of the Federal Judicial Center.Last year the Federal Judicial Center completed 38 research projects, produced eight reports, manuals, and guides, and provided 164 in-person…

 Law.com has Trump-Appointed Judges More Likely to Pen ‘Dissentals’ Than Colleagues, Study Finds — “What we have seen in recent years are examples that make the news headlines of the destructive sort of separate opinion, one that’s not actually meant to reason to the right answer, but is written for another reason: to audition or to…

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

Chief Justice Statement on the Passing of Former Supreme Court Justice Joseph GrodinChief Justice Patricia Guerrero today issued a statement on the passing of former California Supreme Court Justice Joseph Grodin. Grodin served on the state high court from December 1982 to January 1987. Said Chief Justice Guerrero:Justice Joseph R. Grodin was a brilliant…

Bloomberg Law has US Courts Cautiously Experiment With AI to Speed Up Their WorkThe First, Fifth, and Federal circuits are looking into possible uses of AI. For example, the Fifth Circuit is testing whether AI can make initial evaluations on motions for extensions of time or determine whether a party filed an appeal in…