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Supreme Court praises retired Justice Jenkins

More Racial Justice Act supplemental briefing

Justice Kruger talks advocacy and collaborative judging with students

More supplemental briefing required in anti-death penalty writ petition

Challenge to clean energy tax assessments must comply with pre-lawsuit administrative requirements

November calendar videos available

Ninth Circuit sends shareholder damages case to the Supreme Court

Tax procedure opinion filing tomorrow

Report to child abuse database un-moots appeal of dependency court finding

“Gov. Newsom must appoint a Black man to the California Supreme Court”

Oral arguments, no conference next week

Dependency mootness opinion filing Monday

A no straight grant conference

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Supreme Court praises retired Justice Jenkins

More Racial Justice Act supplemental briefing

Justice Kruger talks advocacy and collaborative judging with students

More supplemental briefing required in anti-death penalty writ petition

Challenge to clean energy tax assessments must comply with pre-lawsuit administrative requirements

November calendar videos available

Ninth Circuit sends shareholder damages case to the Supreme Court

Tax procedure opinion filing tomorrow

Report to child abuse database un-moots appeal of dependency court finding

“Gov. Newsom must appoint a Black man to the California Supreme Court”

Oral arguments, no conference next week

Dependency mootness opinion filing Monday

A no straight grant conference

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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]

Fourth straight no-straight-grant conference

Yet another no-straight-grant conference

Another no-straight-grant conference

Conference recap wrap up

No straight grants at this week’s conference

Supreme Court un-holds and agrees to decide another forum selection case

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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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