Today Governor Newsom signed AB3013 regarding ‘remote court reporting,’ which allows for certain superior courts (including LA, Ventura, and SD) to conduct pilot projects to study the potential use of remote court reporting to make verbatim records of certain court proceedings.Yesterday’s Wall St. Journal had ‘The Supreme Court Footnote’ Review: Law at the Margins
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Sills Award Dinner
The OCBA Appellate Law Section presents its Sills Award Dinner on October 29 (5:30 to 8 p.m.). The David G. Sills Award for Appellate Excellence will be presented to Justice Eileen Moore and the program will feature Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and Stanford Law Prof. Michael McConnell
Building an appellate practice
The five California Appellate Projects (ADI, CAP-LA, CCAP, FDAP, SDAP) are presenting a Zoom webinar titled How to Build at Appellate Practice on October 17 @ 12:15 — “Learn about the benefits of handling court-appointed appeals, including greater work-life balance and the opportunity to shape the law.” See Appellate-Panels-Recruitment-Fall-2024.pdf (fdap.org)How clear is it that
Voights to Pillsbury
The Recorder has Pillsbury Hires US Appellate Practice Leader — “Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman hired former Assistant U.S. Attorney and Supreme Court Clerk Anne Voigts to lead its American appellate practice. Voigts joined Pillsbury’s Silicon Valley office after seven years and nine months as a partner at Palo Alto-based King & Spalding. She previously served
Judge McKeown to get the Justice Powell Award
Judge M. Margaret McKeown to Receive the 2024 American Inns of Court Lewis F. Powell Jr. Award — Senior Circuit Judge M. Margaret McKeown of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit will receive the prestigious 2024 American Inns of Court Lewis F. Powell Jr. Award for Professionalism and Ethics. The award will
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Beds to retire
The MetNews reports Court of Appeal Justice Bedsworth to Retire — Jurist Is Widely Lauded for Lucid, Pithy, Sometimes Humorous, Prose
- Court of Appeal Justice William W. Bedsworth—widely viewed as a giant in the judiciary based on opinions that are consistently marked by clarity and often by wit—will be retiring effective Oct. 21 from his
Electronic Court Reporting bombshell!
The Recorder has Defying State Law, LA Superior Court Expands Electronic Case Recording — Los Angeles County Superior Court Presiding Judge Samantha Jessner said the court must use electronic recording to overcome a “constitutional crisis” tied to a lack of available court reporter.Defying state law and the Legislature, Los Angeles County Superior Court’s presiding judge
DJ Top 100 & free oral argument mcle
Today’s DJ has the Top 100 Lawyers 2024 insert, which (as always) includes some particularly appellatey lawyers; so congrats to: Jimmy Azadian, Ted Boutrous, Theane Evangelis, Mira Hashmall, Michael Rubin.Also on the list is Mat Rosengart who happens to have an article in today’s papers titled Clerking for Justice Souter: A journey of luck
SCOTUS recusal article / Justice KBJ in LA
Bloomberg Law has several articles of appellate note:Supreme Court Conservatives Are Less Likely to Explain Recusals — Liberal justices often explain decision to step aside in cases; Court’s 6-3 conservative majority eschews the practiceJustice Jackson Is Open to Binding Supreme Court Ethics Code — Most courts have enforceable code, Jackson said; Second justice