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Conference recap — Part II

Supreme Court will consider wage laws’ applicability to a religious organization — Conference recap Part I

Three-justice concurring statement urges legislative change to sentencing law

Supreme Court un-grants review in taxpayer standing case

Seven-case March calendar includes four death penalty rearguments

Supreme Court accepts Ninth Circuit’s shareholder damages case

The Chief Justice participated in an historic program of Latina judicial leaders

California Supreme Court roundup program coming soon

Supreme Court closed Thursday and next Monday for a couple of presidents

Two former Justice Liu staffers appointed to the superior court

Supreme Court says an illegible contract term might not defeat arbitrability, but doesn’t decide the fate of the term in the case before it

Oral arguments, no conference, this week

Chief Justice addresses courthouse immigration enforcement, the RJA, court bashing, low opinion output, the bar exam, AI

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Conference recap — Part II

Supreme Court will consider wage laws’ applicability to a religious organization — Conference recap Part I

Three-justice concurring statement urges legislative change to sentencing law

Supreme Court un-grants review in taxpayer standing case

Seven-case March calendar includes four death penalty rearguments

Supreme Court accepts Ninth Circuit’s shareholder damages case

The Chief Justice participated in an historic program of Latina judicial leaders

California Supreme Court roundup program coming soon

Supreme Court closed Thursday and next Monday for a couple of presidents

Two former Justice Liu staffers appointed to the superior court

Supreme Court says an illegible contract term might not defeat arbitrability, but doesn’t decide the fate of the term in the case before it

Oral arguments, no conference, this week

Chief Justice addresses courthouse immigration enforcement, the RJA, court bashing, low opinion output, the bar exam, AI

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Conference recap — Part II

Supreme Court will consider wage laws’ applicability to a religious organization — Conference recap Part I

Supreme Court will decide relief-from-default case and won’t return a former Chief Justice’s name to a law school [Updated]

Supreme Court will resolve unusual workers’ comp conflict [Updated]

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

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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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