State of the Union: Selected Annual Presidential Addresses to Congress, from George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Barack Obama, and Others
Legal Pad (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Justice Joyce Kennard: Oops, I'm a lawyer. Justice Joyce Kennard gave a life lesson. Ming Chin campaigned for retention. And UC-Berkeley School of Law Dean Christopher Edley Jr. essentially called Chief Justice Ronald George a judicial Methuselah. All these fun...
Nuts & Boalts (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
A tipster sent in a poorly written e-mail that has gone out to at least a few of you Boalties calling for a boycott of tomorrow's Supreme Court session. It was sent under the name Madison Hamburg, which google says is a hotel in Germany. Given the writer's impoverished understanding of the Boalt Hall community, it makes sense that it was composed by an inanimate object from a foreign country. I hesitate...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
It's hardly surprising that the state courts are having trouble developing a massive new computer system. California continues to build an information superhighway that is strewn with potholes. In recent years, a computer system designed to track child support payments ran up tens of millions of dollars in cost overruns. So did an effort by the Department of Motor Vehicles to update its computerized...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Ronald George, chief justice of the California Supreme Court, says of the controversy, "Much of the loudest, much of the shrillest criticism … (is) from people who aren't fully informed." Judges, law enforcement officials and union workers joined together Tuesday to release an accountability plan for the Administrative Office of the Courts, calling on the Legislature to increase the...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
1997: KPMG Consulting installs a computer system – dubbed "VISION" – in the Ventura Superior Court. 1999: Orange Superior Court hires KPMG Consulting to customize the same system for its needs. 2000: Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald George and state court administrators ask the state for funding to upgrade some courts' computer systems. Then-Gov. Gray Davis recommends a larger...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Sacramento Superior Court Presiding Judge James Mize noted several glitches during the unveiling of an electronic filing feature of a centralized computer system planned for state courts. "The result was less than satisfying," he told the Judicial Council. An effort to create a centralized computer system for California's state courts, originally conceived as a modest upgrade in a few counties,...
Legal Pad (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
Chief Justice Ronald George praised a roomful of do-gooding lawyers late yesterday for tackling “the challenge of the unrepresented litigants in our civil justice system.” The event marked Bay Area firms’ signing, or re-signing, of a pledge to commit resources...
JURIST (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
[JURIST] California Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald George on Saturday criticized California's voter initiative process, which gives Californians the right to initiate or make new laws via the ballot box. In a speech to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, George said the process, which effectively allows voters to bypass the legislative process, has made the state government dysfunctional....
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
To absorb a $410 million funding shortfall, California court administrators have ordered all courts to close one day a month. The closures amount to a 4.6 percent pay cut for all court employees except judges. A provision of the California Constitution bars the Legislature from reducing the salaries of judges during their term in office. So, in fairness and in solidarity with the court's non-judge...
JURIST (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009
[JURIST] California courts were closed Wednesday in the first of what will be a monthly shut down of the judiciary in an effort to reduce the state's budget gap. The closures were authorized as part of California Code 68070, which allows for closure of the courts one day per month, "for the transaction of judicial business for one day per month and may adopt rules of court to implement this section."...
snarkolepsy (Free subscription) | 08/30/2009
It is ironic I got this shot today. When I started bitching about the firefighters, here and way back here , I never imagined the shit storm that was descending on government employees. How could I know really? It's taken 5 years to gain access to government employees compensation. This is after a supreme court ruled that cities must release the information. Some cities are still holding out. "More...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 08/08/2009
The judge who ruled there was massive fraud in a lawsuit against Dole Foods will return from her new appellate court assignment to preside over further proceedings in the contentious litigation. Ronald George, Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court,... Sponsored Topics: California Supreme Court - ronald m george - United States - Law - Ronald George
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 08/08/2009
The judge who ruled there was extensive fraud in a lawsuit against Dole Foods will return from her appellate court assignment to preside over further proceedings in the contentious cases. Ronald George, Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court, granted a... Presented By: Drain the Ocean - Sunday August 9 9P e/p This is a world you have never seen before, a world normally hidden under miles of...
John Clark Pro Se Blog (Free subscription) | 07/30/2009
I don't know Mr. Marciano, never met him, and I don't wear Guess jeans. I also have no interest in his run for governor of California, one way or another. So why do I bring him up here? Because, folks, what he's doing will be of enormous help to pro pers and pro ses everywhere, so pay attention. He was in, and because of the heavy-handed actions of another gorilla judge in Los Angeles Superior Court,...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 07/21/2009
It's impossible to know who's right in the squabble between Sacramento County judges and the San Francisco-based Administrative Office of the Courts. The AOC is the operational arm of the state's Judicial Council, most of whose members are appointed by California Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald George. A large majority of Sacramento County judges signed a letter recently opposing AOC's proposal...
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