In what has become standard procedure, the Supreme Court yesterday named the pro tem justices for a calendar it had announced a week earlier. This time it’s the June calendar, and, because there won’t be another oral argument session for over three months, it should be a safe bet that Governor Jerry Brown will fill the vacancy on the court before then and that June’s will thus be the last wholesale pro tem calendar until the next justice retires. “Should be,” but definitely not a given.
As with the pro tems for the late-May calendar, several of the June pro tems are back with the Supreme Court more quickly than expected. Justice William Murray, Jr. sat on a November calendar case, Presiding Justice Judith McConnell and Justice Gilbert Nares sat on October calendar cases, and Justice Luis Lavin sat on a September calendar case. By contrast, Justice Judith Haller hasn’t been a pro tem since the December 2016 calendar.
These are the June pro tems:
In re C.B. and In re C.H.: Third District Court of Appeal Justice Murray.
De La Torre v. CashCall, Inc.: Fourth District, Division One, Justice Haller.
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, LLP v. J-M Manufacturing Co., Inc.: Fourth District, Division One, Justice Nares.
Bianka M. v. Superior Court: Fourth District, Division One, Presiding Justice McConnell.
Ramirez v. City of Gardena: Second District, Division Three, Justice Lavin.
