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Chief Justice addresses courthouse immigration enforcement, the RJA, court bashing, low opinion output, the bar exam, AI

Small amount of scattered marijuana is not probable cause for a car search

Arbitration opinion filing Monday

Supreme Court will decide relief-from-default case and won’t return a former Chief Justice’s name to a law school [Updated]

Supreme Court leaves intact decision striking down Huntington Beach voter ID law

Car search opinion filing tomorrow

Supreme Court OKs another LWOP sentence commutation

The U.S. and California Supreme Courts might have pickiness in common

Legislation to limit Supreme Court elections won’t be re-introduced this year

Ninth Circuit denies habeas relief to California death row inmate

Supreme Court will resolve unusual workers’ comp conflict [Updated]

Can statewide statistics prove systemic racism?

January oral argument videos available

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Chief Justice addresses courthouse immigration enforcement, the RJA, court bashing, low opinion output, the bar exam, AI

Small amount of scattered marijuana is not probable cause for a car search

Arbitration opinion filing Monday

Supreme Court will decide relief-from-default case and won’t return a former Chief Justice’s name to a law school [Updated]

Supreme Court leaves intact decision striking down Huntington Beach voter ID law

Car search opinion filing tomorrow

Supreme Court OKs another LWOP sentence commutation

The U.S. and California Supreme Courts might have pickiness in common

Legislation to limit Supreme Court elections won’t be re-introduced this year

Ninth Circuit denies habeas relief to California death row inmate

Supreme Court will resolve unusual workers’ comp conflict [Updated]

Can statewide statistics prove systemic racism?

January oral argument videos available

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Blogs and Podcasts on California Appellate Litigation

Supreme Court will decide relief-from-default case and won’t return a former Chief Justice’s name to a law school [Updated]

Supreme Court will resolve unusual workers’ comp conflict [Updated]

Review denial dissents — conference recap Part II

Supreme Court orders sanctions hearing about DA’s alleged AI briefing — conference recap Part I [Updated]

Supreme Court will decide contract interpretation case

Conference results — Part II

Review granted in sentencing error, faulty criminal information cases — Part I

Supreme Court will decide gun-brandishing case [Updated]

A no straight grant conference

Conference recap — Part II

Supreme Court grants review in litigation-costs-waiver case — Part I of conference recap

Supreme Court will decide water quality case [Updated]

A no-straight-grant conference

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Is a Supreme Court amicus brief application ever premature after review is granted?

Warning to grant-and-hold counsel: lead-case remittitur may be closer than it appears

“The California Supreme Court’s average time from briefing to oral argument 2023–24”

The Chief Justice on remote arguments, issue percolation, rescue missions, and opinion length [Updated with photo]

Supreme Court affirms and also disapproves Court of Appeal decision in wobbler case

Supreme Court wants you to not incorporate prior briefing

“Rescue missions”: the Supreme Court sometimes is an error-correction body

Don’t split your oral argument time — a caveat

Don’t split your oral argument time [Updated]

Former Chief Justice talks about inter-branch tensions, gives practice tips, and advocates for raising State Bar dues at bar association program

Captioning Supreme Court documents

The necessity — or not — of preserving issues for Supreme Court review

UC Law SF offers moot courts to prepare for Supreme Court arguments

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