With this post, we're addressing a new question in our ongoing review of the Justices' voting records: how often each Justice is in the minority.

Last time, we looked at how often Chief Justice Anne Burke voted with the minority in civil cases – a proxy for how closely in sync with the philosophy of the other Justices she has been...

Appellants' and appellees' amici had similar won-lost records overall in criminal cases from 2010 to 2020 – appellants won two-thirds of the time, and appellees' amici won 69.23% of their cases.

An aggressive plaintiff's bar. Increased regulatory scrutiny. A new administration. In-house counsel face a challenging litigation environment, and we're here to help.

One bit of conventional wisdom that's frequently heard about appellate review in California is that if a Court of Appeal opinion isn't published

The following recent developments at the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation provide some practical pointers when facing litigation in multiple jurisdictions.

The following recent developments at the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation provide some practical pointers when facing litigation in multiple jurisdictions.

Permutations and Pointers in Personal Jurisdiction Law.

Hence, the jurisdictional issue turned on whether the Court could exercise specific personal jurisdiction over the nonresident plaintiffs' claims.

As previously promised, we wanted to update our readers on a February 2024 decision by the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota to slash a $487 million judgment against Precision Lens and

Last time, we showed that although civil dockets were down a bit between 1997 and 2000 in the First and Fifth Districts

This time, we're reviewing Justice Theis' voting record. In civil cases, Justice Theis has cast 141 votes to affirm, 151 votes to reverse and 49 split votes to affirm in part and reverse in part.

From taking his seat in 2020 through the end of 2021, Justice Michael Burke participated in 52 civil cases – nineteen in 2020 and 33 in 2021.

Justice Michael Burke has written a total of nine opinions in civil cases – seven majority opinions, one special concurrence and one dissent.

In these final two posts, we're reviewing the areas of law in which Justice Michael Burke's majority and dissenting opinions have fallen.

The Ninth Circuit affirmed a district court's decision to dismiss a pension fund's putative securities class action in City of Dearborn Heights Act 345 Police & Fire Retirement System v. Align...

Between 2000 and 2009, the Court decided 21 civil procedure cases from the First District – two from Division One, five from Division Two, four each from Divisions Three, Four and Five and two from Division Six.

This week we're concluding our trip through the Justice-by-Justice oral argument analytics data to determine whether it's possible to predict when a particular Justice is dissenting...

The Fourth District population is much more evenly distributed than the Third District is.

Finally, we come to the Fifth District, the largest District in terms of the total number of counties covered (18) and the next-to-smallest District by population, only a few thousand residents ahead...