When the Supreme Court last week announced its March oral argument calendar, the first with the vacancy that will be created by Justice Carlos Moreno’s impending retirement, pro tem justices had been appointed to sit on only four of the seven cases to be heard. The court today posted an amended calendar showing pro tem justices for all seven cases.
Interestingly, one of the temporary justices — Justice Richard Aronson of the Fourth District, Division Three in Santa Ana — served as a pro tem Supreme Court justice less than two months ago when the entire Supreme Court recused itself from hearing the state-buildings-sale case. We thought that, under the court’s internal operating practices and procedures, Justice Aronson wouldn’t be called on again until all other qualified Court of Appeal justices had been tapped in alphabetical order.
