At the Lectern

DECEMBER 5, 2020

2d 18 [part of oath prescribed by the state constitution violates the federal constitution]) to Martin Jenkins, ending a nearly one-month gap between Justice Jenkins’s confirmation and his joining the Supreme Court. Los Angeles County (1967) 68 Cal.2d It was a remote, virtual ceremony.

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At the Lectern

JANUARY 30, 2023

Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero’s opinion today for a unanimous court in Travis v. Brand is her first as a Supreme Court justice. She became an associate justice at the end of March 2022 ( here and here ) and heard her first oral arguments the next month.

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At the Lectern

DECEMBER 17, 2022

The Supreme Court has announced its January calendar, the first one to be presided over by Patricia Guerrero, who will be sworn in as Chief Justice days before the arguments. At its current pace, the court will issue only 48 or 49 opinions this term, on a par with last term’s historically low output. Code, § 190.2,

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At the Lectern

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Six days after being sworn in as a Supreme Court justice, Justice Martin Jenkins participated in his first conference yesterday. The case might be renamed later, because the court denied two defendants’ petitions for review, granting only the petition filed by defendant Hoskins.

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