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Public Records Act allows for declaratory relief actions, doesn’t require retention of requested records that are not disclosed

Review denial dissents — conference recap Part II

Supreme Court closed Monday for Martin Luther King Day

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

Separate statement about the timing of a resentencing hearing

Separate statement about closing public meetings after disruptions

Five cases on the Supreme Court’s February calendar

Public Records Act opinion filing tomorrow

The great opinion-count blog battle

Two colleagues tried to persuade the Governor not to back Justice Grodin’s removal in the 1986 retention election

Justices attend Governor’s State of the State Address; Chief Justice’s statement on judicial branch budget

Ninth Circuit sends drug possession case to the California Supreme Court

SCOCAblog’s year in review

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Public Records Act allows for declaratory relief actions, doesn’t require retention of requested records that are not disclosed

Review denial dissents — conference recap Part II

Supreme Court closed Monday for Martin Luther King Day

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

Separate statement about the timing of a resentencing hearing

Separate statement about closing public meetings after disruptions

Five cases on the Supreme Court’s February calendar

Public Records Act opinion filing tomorrow

The great opinion-count blog battle

Two colleagues tried to persuade the Governor not to back Justice Grodin’s removal in the 1986 retention election

Justices attend Governor’s State of the State Address; Chief Justice’s statement on judicial branch budget

Ninth Circuit sends drug possession case to the California Supreme Court

SCOCAblog’s year in review

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Blogs and Podcasts on California Appellate Litigation

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

Wednesday’s conference recap — Part II

Supreme Court will hear prison credits, condemned prisoner resentencing cases — Part I [Updated]

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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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