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19 Dec 2016, 9:17 am
" "Moore created the Veterans Working Group, a subcommittee of the Judicial Council's Collaborative Courts Advisory Committee. [read post]
7 Nov 2016, 2:48 pm by Kent Scheidegger
  In addition, the California Supreme Court contracts with the California Appellate Project to provide advice to appointed lawyers in capital cases, and nothing in Proposition 66 changes that.But if the present rule promulgated by the California Judicial Council is not enough to establish that prior capital experience is not essential for a lawyer to be qualified, there is another source that also says so. [read post]
1 Nov 2016, 10:08 am
Last Friday's DJ had a column titled Saving The Civil Jury Trial (by Mark Robinson and Bruce Broillet) that started off with some interesting statistics from the National Center for State Courts and the California Judicial Council showing the drop in civil jury trials that we've all heard about forever.But the numbers are stark: In 1938 20% of federal cases went to trial. [read post]
31 Oct 2016, 2:02 pm by Jay
Jing (2010) 189 Cal.App.4th 1354, 1369; see also Judicial Council of California Civil Jury Instructions (2015 Edition), CACI Nos. 1700-1707.In order to recover in a defamation claim the Plaintiff also must show that the statement was made as a “fact” and not an “opinion,” a determination which should be left to the trier of fact, so long as the Court concludes that a statement could reasonably be construed as implying a false assertion of fact. [read post]
30 Oct 2016, 3:08 pm
If you are looking for an alternative source of legal news, the Judicial Council publishes a daily newsletter called NewsLinks.Too bad! [read post]
17 Oct 2016, 5:02 pm by Arthur F. Coon
California Marijuana Law and The City’s Ordinance As background legal context, California’s Compassionate Use Act of 1996 and 2003 Medical Marijuana Program (MMP) have removed certain obstacles to qualified patients’ access to and medical use of marijuana, including exempting qualified patients and their caregivers from numerous state criminal sanctions for cooperative cultivation activities. [read post]
9 Oct 2016, 9:01 pm by Ronald D. Rotunda
The president’s advisory council of scientists and engineers now says, “It has become increasingly clear in recent years that lack of rigor in the assessment of the scientific validity of forensic evidence is not just a hypothetical problem but a real and significant weakness in the judicial system. [read post]
9 Sep 2016, 12:17 pm by Arthur F. Coon
The plan amendment also complied with SMARA’s wildlife habitat preservation provisions despite the fact that it did not specifically mention the federally-protected California red-legged frog, which was found in the lower creek segment outside the plan amendment’s boundary in 1997. [read post]
25 Aug 2016, 9:30 am by Jonathan L. Brophy and Kate Svinarich
  A 2013 report from the California Judicial Council (“CJC”) estimated that the budget crisis had resulted in the closing of 50 courthouses, 175 courtrooms, and more than 25 branch courts. [read post]
23 Aug 2016, 8:09 pm by Ad Law Defense
  With the motion to decertify pending, the parties settled and sought judicial approval of their agreement [Dkt. [read post]
22 Aug 2016, 11:00 am by Laura Orr
The “2017 SRLN Conference will be held February 23 -24, 2017 at the California Judicial Council building in San Francisco. [read post]
22 Aug 2016, 11:00 am by Laura Orr
The “2017 SRLN Conference will be held February 23 -24, 2017 at the California Judicial Council building in San Francisco. [read post]
15 Aug 2016, 10:51 am by Arthur F. Coon
” Accordingly, the council concluded the project’s demolition and replacement of the Trestle would not have a significant impact on the environment. [read post]
3 Aug 2016, 12:18 pm by Abbott & Kindermann
This case presents issues concerning the standard and scope of judicial review under the California Environmental Quality Act. [read post]
26 Jul 2016, 9:45 am by Abbott & Kindermann
The City Council adopted the urgency ordinance which had the effect of adding the conditional use permit requirement. [read post]