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The 2025–2026 term in numbers — the conferences

In 8 pages, Supreme Court holds firearm-brandishing liability requires causing only objective fear

Gun-brandishing opinion filing Monday

Third straight no-straight-grant conference

October oral argument videos are available

Conference recap — Part II

Another no-straight-grant conference — recap Part I

Five-case calendar for November [Updated with additional pro tems]

Supreme Court OKs two more LWOP commutations and two more pardons

Supreme Court expected to rule tomorrow on two more LWOP commutation requests

Chronicle endorses Justices Groban and Evans

Supreme Court might be inundated with a “heavy lift” of hundreds of death penalty commutation requests [Updated with additional “related” links]

Judicial Council’s Supreme Court year in review

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The 2025–2026 term in numbers — the conferences

In 8 pages, Supreme Court holds firearm-brandishing liability requires causing only objective fear

Gun-brandishing opinion filing Monday

Third straight no-straight-grant conference

October oral argument videos are available

Conference recap — Part II

Another no-straight-grant conference — recap Part I

Five-case calendar for November [Updated with additional pro tems]

Supreme Court OKs two more LWOP commutations and two more pardons

Supreme Court expected to rule tomorrow on two more LWOP commutation requests

Chronicle endorses Justices Groban and Evans

Supreme Court might be inundated with a “heavy lift” of hundreds of death penalty commutation requests [Updated with additional “related” links]

Judicial Council’s Supreme Court year in review

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The 2025–2026 term in numbers — the conferences

Third straight no-straight-grant conference

Conference recap — Part II

Another no-straight-grant conference — recap Part I

A no-straight-grant conference

Three civil straight grants at this week’s conference [Updated]

Conference recap Part II — five more review denials with dissents

Tax voting case added to the Supreme Court’s docket — Conference recap Part I

Supreme Court will hear a nonresident tax case — Conference recap Part II

No straight grants at the term’s first conference — Part I [Updated]

Supreme Court to decide whether Los Angeles eviction ordinance is preempted by state law [Updated]

No straight grants of review this week [Updated]

Conference recap — Part II

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No stipulated briefing extensions in the Supreme Court

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

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