It is worth recognizing a significant milestone that occurred this week: the official end of a 25-year Supreme Court career.
Justice Joyce Kennard retired from the Supreme Court soon after the court’s April calendar. But she continued to serve as a pro tem justice on those cases in which she heard oral argument and in which opinions had not been issued before her retirement. Opinions in the last two of those cases were filed Monday.
In Ayala v. Antelope Valley Newspapers, she concurred in the the five-justice lead opinion (there were two concurring opinions). She authored the court’s opinion for six justices in People v. Sattiewhite (one justice concurred separately).
