The California Blog of Appeal Will Now Come to Order!
Greg May, presiding. Welcome to my blog. I suggest you start by reading this post, then reading the “about” boxes in the left column, then clicking on the “About Greg May and G. T. May Law Offices”...
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Purely administrative stuff here, folks. In 1979’s The Jerk, Steve Martin’s character, Navin Johnson, sees his name in the phone book for the first time and exclaims, “This is the kind of publicity...
View ArticleRSS Feed Issue Resolved
I’ve corrected the RSS Feed link in the right sidebar. The former link was inadvertently set up with an incorrect address for the feed. So, if you have tried unsuccessfully to subscribe to the feed,...
View ArticleChanges Made and Changes Coming to The California Blog of Appeal
I’m in the process of setting up my own web host for The California Blog of Appeal. Right now, the blog is hosted on Wordpress.com. at the URL http://calblogofappeal.wordpress.com. Those of you who...
View ArticleOther Judicial Council Proposals Awaiting Comment
In addition to the three proposals I posted about today, the Judicial Council is soliciting comments on several other proposals. They are consolidated here. There is also a downloadable fact sheet on...
View ArticleThe Move is Complete — Welcome to the Self-Hosted California Blog of Appeal!
I got everything done, and from now on I’ll be posting exclusively here at the self-hosted site. No more posts will be made to the Wordpress site, except in order to direct traffic here. Some things...
View ArticleLegal Blog Nominations
OK, this is just a little outside my normal subject matter. But since I figure most of my visitors are regular readers of legal blogs, I thought I should tip you all off to the fact that Legal Antics...
View ArticleSome Small Changes
Regular readers will note some small changes to the post and commenting formats. First, the comment form now includes a field for your URL. If you fill out this field with the URL of your own blog,...
View ArticleSnap Shots are Back
Introducing Snap Shots from Snap.com I just installed a nice little tool on this site called Snap Shots that enhances links with visual previews of the destination site, interactive excerpts of...
View ArticlePosting Schedule
I will be in San Diego or in transit July 17-19 and doubt I will be accessing the blog in that time. If there’s a blog storm over some bombshell opinion between now and Friday and you’re wondering why...
View ArticlePosting Schedule
I will be out of town starting tomorrow and will not return until Monday night. I’ve set up posts in advance for tomorrow and Friday, so they obviously won’t cover breaking news. I’m not sure if I...
View ArticleSite Upgrade Notes and Request for Assistance
I upgraded the blog from Wordpress 2.2 to Wordpress 2.3 overnight. You may see some minor fluctuations in the site as a result. For example, I have removed the site stats from the right sidebar because...
View ArticleBrief Outage for Upgrade Monday Night
I will be upgrading The California Blog of Appeal to Wordpress 2.5 on Monday night. Previous upgrades have gone off without a hitch, requiring only about 15 minutes of downtime. This one should run...
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My New Digs . . . and New Everything Else
Some of you may have noticed some changes in sidebar information that clued you in to my recent relocation and change of practice name. Most of you probably didn’t, so here’s everything you need to...
View ArticleTime for Another Wordpress Upgrade
I’m behind in upgrading to Wordpress version 2.6, so I’m going to try to do it this weekend. That means a brief outage during the upgrade process. Previous upgrades have gone smoothly, and with any...
View ArticleProposed Meeting of Law Bloggers at the California State Bar Convention
Victoria Pynchon of the Settle It Now Negotiation Blog asked that I pass along her suggestion for a law blogger meeting at the California State Bar Convention this week, and I do so gladly. From...
View ArticleA Note to my Feed Subscribers
A glitch over the weekend resulted in a post to this blog that didn’t belong here. You’ll know it when you see it. Rather than trying to figure out what it has to do with appeals, rest assured that...
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Unlike the Ninth Circuit, this blog is soon to be split in two
And just how, you might be wondering, is a blog with a single blogger going to split up? Since this blog’s inception, I have covered case law and issues in the Ninth Circuit as well as California...
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Now in session: The Ninth Circuit Blog of Appeals!
The Ninth Circuit Just before Christmas, I announced that this blog would be spinning off a new blog, The Ninth Circuit Blog of Appeals, with the start of the new year. I’m pleased to announce that The...
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Happy Birthday to The California Blog of Appeal!
Image via Wikipedia per GNU Free Documentation License The California Blog of Appeal launched at 3:12 pm on April 30, 2007, with a first post entitled “The California Blog of Appeal Will Now Come to...
View ArticleThe blog will be down for maintenance starting later today
I’ll be taking the blog offline some time this afternoon or this evening to update some of the software on the back end. I don’t know if it will be down for a few hours or a few days — it all depends...
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Shameless request for nominations
Expert witness service The Expert Institute is taking nominations for entries in its 2015 Best Legal Blog Contest. Do I need to say anything more? OK, here comes the shameless part. Whether you are a...
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Congrats and thank you to the new TEN Networks Blog (and welcome, TEN members!)
The TEN Networks, Inc. launched its blog last week, and the editors graciously designated The California Blog of Appeal as one of its Member Blogs of the Month, along with with Elderupdates.com, the...
View ArticleCalifornia Supreme Court invites your comment on proposed changes to...
I expect that in this age of electronic research, most lawyers have experienced the frustration of finding the “perfect” case, only to learn it is unpublished and therefore could not be cited as...
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Changes to the blog
Regular readers will note a different look to the blog, which I implemented over the weekend. I actually liked the old look better, but my WordPress upgrade “broke” the Headway theme I used to create...
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SB 470 codifies Reid v. Google, Inc., provides that objections to summary...
On Monday, according to this article at The Recorder, Governor Brown signed SB 470, amending Code of Civil Procedure section 437c, which governs procedure for motions for summary judgment and summary...
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Are records on appeal from the Los Angeles Superior Court about to get better?
The headline is not a dig at anyone at the Los Angeles Superior Court (LASC). It refers to the impact of the statewide court budget crunch, which led many courts to stop providing court reporters as a...
View ArticleMandatory E-filing comes to the Third District Court of Appeal
Details here. The court has adopted a new Local Rule 5 covering e-filing procedures, which become effective September 14. It looks like documents need to be filed through the proprietary TrueFiling...
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Some technical help for e-filing in the Court of Appeal
This week, the Second District Court of Appeal published a terrific guide for creating electronic documents. (PDF link) The guide is broken down into a section on briefs and a section on appendices,...
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The 2015 edition of the California Litigation Review is Out
Find it and read it! The 2015 edition of the California Litigation Review hit my mailbox yesterday. It is published by the Litigation Section of the California State Bar and it has some terrific...
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Second District Court of Appeal to implement TrueFiling e-filing system in...
According to a notice I received today from the California Appellate Project: The clerk of the 2nd District Court of Appeal has asked us to inform the panel that True Filing will be available in this...
View ArticleI’m back!
Or, should I say, the blog is back. I’m not sure how much blogging I will do in the near future, but at least the old posts are up again after an extended outage. The fix was really simple, but it took...
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