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Race is the issue of the day 27 Aug 2013 | 12:15 am
The Supreme Court unanimously affirmed three death penalty judgments today. (Here, here, and here.) There is notable dissonance in those cases, however, particularly in the concurring opinions of Ju...
Big filing day Monday: three death penalty opinions and a robbery opinion 24 Aug 2013 | 04:36 am
The Supreme Court will file four opinions on Monday. All are criminal cases; three are death penalty appeals. People v. Harris is an automatic direct appeal from an August 1999 judgment of death. P...
Summary of August 21, 2013 conference report for civil cases 24 Aug 2013 | 04:23 am
The following is our summary of the Supreme Court’s actions on petitions for review in civil cases from the Court’s conference on Wednesday, August 21, 2013. The summary includes those civil cases in...
Death penalty opinion filing tomorrow 22 Aug 2013 | 03:37 am
The Supreme Court will file tomorrow its opinion in People v. Edwards, a direct automatic appeal from a September 1998 death penalty judgment. Edwards was argued on the court’s late-May calendar. Af...
Taking issue with your answer to petition for review 21 Aug 2013 | 09:14 am
Answering a petition for review is optional. It is sometimes unnecessary. (Supreme Court staff attorneys would probably say it’s usually unnecessary.) The court can often tell whether it wants to h...
Supreme Court two-a-days: police liability, Sexually Violent Predator Act opinions filing Monday 17 Aug 2013 | 12:36 am
With the high school and college football seasons around the corner, young players throughout the country are now enduring two practices each day. These two-a-days — often in intensely hot weather — ...
Summary of August 14, 2013 conference report for civil cases 16 Aug 2013 | 08:20 am
The following is our summary of the Supreme Court’s actions on petitions for review in civil cases from the Court’s conference on Wednesday, August 14, 2013. The summary includes those civil cases in...
Webinar on the two recent Supreme Court UCL opinions 15 Aug 2013 | 10:35 pm
Two weeks ago, the Supreme Court filed a pair of opinions regarding California’s Unfair Competition Law (Bus. & Prof. Code, § 17200) – Zhang v. Superior Court and Rose v. Bank of America. Wasting lit...
Supreme Court tributes for former Justice Clark 15 Aug 2013 | 03:58 am
The Supreme Court has issued a press release praising former Justice William P. Clark, Jr., who died Saturday. Tributes came from Chief Justice Cantil-Sakauye and two of Justice Clark’s former staff ...
Prop. 8 writ petitions denied, dismissed 15 Aug 2013 | 03:44 am
The Supreme Court today summarily denied the first of two writ petitions seeking to enforce Proposition 8′s prohibition of same-sex marriages. The court also today granted the request of the petition...
