In the next two posts, we’re reviewing Justice Corrigan’s voting record.
Since joining the Court, Justice Corrigan has voted to reverse in full in 283 civil cases. She has cast split votes (affirm in part, reverse/vacate in part – denoted in the chart as “AR” votes) 44 times. She has voted to affirm in 188
Last time, we began a six-part post reviewing the tenure (to date) of Justice Carol Corrigan. This time, we’re reviewing Justice Corrigan’s record in opinion writing.
Through the end of last week, Justice Corrigan has written 83 majority opinions in civil cases. She has filed only five concurrences and 14 dissents. Her heaviest year for
This week, we’ll begin a series of posts reviewing the tenure of each Justice of the Supreme Court. Similar to our recently completed review of former Justice Cuéllar’s tenure, we’ll devote six parts to each Justice. Although technically the Chief Justice is always the senior member of the Court, we’ll take the serving Justices in
This time, we’re concluding our six-part post on the tenure of Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar with a look at the subjects of his majority and dissenting opinions in criminal, quasi-criminal, juvenile justice and mental health cases.
Not surprisingly, the most frequent topic of Justice Cuéllar’s majority opinions in criminal cases was death penalty law. He wrote
This week, we’re reviewing the written opinions of Justice Cuéllar’s seven-year tenure. The most frequent topics for his majority opinions in civil cases were government and administrative law and civil procedure, with six opinions each. Justice Cuéllar wrote two government and administrative law majority opinions in 2016 and 2018 and one each in 2019 and
Today, we’re reviewing the metric we’ve argued in past posts is a reasonable proxy for determining the degree to which a particular Justice is in sync ideologically with the rest of his Court (and/or the degree of influence that Justice has on the Court). For purposes of this number, we’re including only total agreement –
Today, we’re continuing our multi-part series on the soon-to-conclude tenure on the Court of Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar.
We begin this time with a review of Justice Cuéllar’s votes. To simplify our numbers (and since it’s the smallest portion of the docket), we disregard the certified question appeals where the Court’s holding was something other than
As we continue our review of Justice Cuéllar’s nearly seven years on the California Supreme Court, today we’re looking at his published opinions. Since joining the Court, Justice Cuéllar has written 99 opinions – 43 in civil cases and 56 in criminal cases.
Justice Cuéllar has written a total of 27 civil majority opinions along
The resignation of Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar from the California Supreme Court becomes effective on Sunday, October 31. Today, we’re beginning a four-part review of Justice Cuéllar’s tenure.
Justice Cuéllar took his seat on the Court on January 5, 2015, replacing retired Justice Marvin Baxter. Since that time, he has participated in 513 cases (assuming no
Reprinted with permission from the October 2017 issue of ALI CLE’s The Practical Lawyer.
On Lex Machina’s platform, counsel can use the “motion kickstarter” to survey recent motions before the assigned trial judge. The “motion chain” links together the briefing and the eventual order for each motion, so counsel can identify the arguments which