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Bruce’s Beach: A Case Study for Judicial Analytics Best Practices

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If we look at things at a more granular level, we learn that Beckloff and Chalfant both grant demurrers at a rate on par with the county average (42%), favoring those filed by the defendant at a rate of 83%. Strobel , on the other hand, has granted 77% of the demurrers filed in her court, 90 percent of which were in favor of the defendant.

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Supreme Court to decide Prop. 22 challenge and another SB 1437 resentencing case [Updated]

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AmGUARD Insurance Company that affirmed the sustaining of a demurrer to a complaint claiming insurance coverage for business income losses from government COVID pandemic shut-down orders. The court denied a request to depublish the Fourth District, Division Three, opinion in Coast Restaurant Group, Inc.

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Review granted in a taxpayer action about COVID speedy trial rights and in yet another SB 1437 case

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” The trial court had dismissed the action on demurrer, ruling that one superior court cannot direct a writ of mandamus to another superior court. factors” from two governing Supreme Court opinions — People v. The appellate court did so even while it “acknowledge[d] that some. Banks (2015) 61 Cal.4th

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Gang enhancements, union protections, racially biased prosecutions, the Second Amendment, Michael Jackson, and more at the Supreme Court’s conference

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The petition asserts that Government Code section 3550 — providing, “A public employer shall not deter or discourage public employees or applicants to be public employees from becoming or remaining members of an employee organization” — violates free speech protections under the federal and state constitutions.