Litigation
Cal. Litig. 2023, Volume 36, Issue 2
Content
- A Litigator's Guide To Vacatur: Overturning An Arbitration Award
- A Trial Lawyer In Full: the Life and Career of James J. Brosnahan
- Are You Savvy About Arbitration?
- California's Gun Purchase Waiting Period: a History of the Future
- Editor's Foreword
- Five Non-legal Books Every Young Litigator Should Read
- From the Section Chair
- Meet Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett (C.D. Cal.)
- PAST SECTION CHAIRS & EDITORS-IN-CHIEF
- SECTION OFFICERS & EDITORIAL BOARD
- Table of Contents
- The Best Way To Destroy An Enemy Is To Make Him a Friend
- The Need To Update California's International Arbitration Code
- What's Next With the Client Trust Accounting Protection Program?
- You Are Not An American: Citizenship From Dred Scott To the Dreamers
- Why I Did It the Way I Did It
WHY I DID IT THE WAY I DID IT
GOING PUBLIC ON THE THIRD DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL
Written by Jon B. Eisenberg*
In 2021, I complained to the California Commission on Judicial Performance about egregious decisional delays by four justices of the Court of Appeal for the Third Appellate District in Sacramento — Administrative Presiding Justice Vance W. Raye and Associate Justices William J. Murray, Cole Blease, and Harry E. Hull. Cumulatively, during 2018-2021, those four justices allowed hundreds of appeals to languish undecided for periods between two and eight years after the completion of briefing, with many instances where criminal sentences were reversed or reduced after they had been fully served.
In 2022, the CJP took disciplinary action against Justice Raye, forcing him to retire and publicly admonishing him. The CJP never dealt with Justice Blease, instead simply closing his case after he passed away. As of this writing, the CJP has advised me that it has not yet reached a decision about Justice Murray, who voluntarily retired, or Justice Hull, who continues to sit on the Third District bench.