Litigation
Cal. Litig. 2020, Volume 33, Number 2
Content
- A Long and Winding Road to Undo Bad Supreme Court Law
- Affirmative Action Quandaries the Affirmative Action Puzzle: a Living History from Reconstruction to Today (Pantheon:322 Pages) By Melvin I. Urofsky
- From Cla's Ceo a Personal Plea for Addressing the Root Causes of Racism
- From the Section Chair News for a New World
- Insurance Coverage Analysis Avoids Malpractice Landmines
- Intellectual Property Litigation and Other Updates in the Video Game Industry as of April 2020
- Masthead
- MCLE Article Threats, Extortion and Legitimate Advocacy
- Navigating the New Settled Statement Procedures
- Nuts and Bolts of Videoconference Dispute Resolution in the Time of Covid-19
- Recent Legislative Changes Affect Long-Standing Pre-Trial Discovery Practice
- Showing Lack of Probable Cause: Plaintiff's Burden of Proof in Opposing an Anti-Slapp Motion Attacking a Malicious Prosecution Claim
- Stringfellow Acid Pits: the Toxic and Legal Legacy By Brian Craig
- Table of Contents
- That Family Is Wrong for You: Religious Objections Before the Supreme Court
- The Puzzle of Precedent in the California Court of Appeal
- Editor's Foreword Sweet Successes — On or About 31 Flavors
EDITOR’S FOREWORD Sweet Successes — On or About 31 Flavors
By Benjamin G. Shatz
Benjamin G. Shatz, Editor-in-Chief of this journal, is a certified Specialist in Appellate Law and Co-chairs the Appellate Practice Group of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, in Los Angeles. BShatz@Manatt.com
My last EIC’s foreword was written with the optimism of a dawning new age. What I had in mind was a futuristic Year 2020 — a vision of Buck Rogers. Instead, we got Daniel Dafoe, who authored both A Journal of the Plague Year and Robinson Crusoe. As I write right now, L.A. feels more like London 1665 — at least in my imagination. I don’t really know because I’m marooned at home, not quite as beleaguered and lonely as a castaway, but feeling akin. The good news is that modern tech really has allowed most lawyers to continue to work from home. And we’re getting this journal out, and on time, come hell or high water.
We’ve got a dozen awesome articles for you. As always, they include deep legal analysis, practical tips, some history and some forward thinking. I won’t catalog them all for you this time. Explore them on your own, and be sure to send feedback to me. I will, however, draw one fun connection: Mike Berger, one of our authors in this issue, actually features prominently in the book reviewed by Dan Lawton about the Stringfellow Acid Pits saga. May we all have such meaningful legal work in our careers. Perhaps you already have some to share? Now’s a great time to submit an article to California Litigation.