NYTimes

June 19, 2019

Beginning before Stonewall and continuing in the 50 years since, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people have regularly turned to the courts for protection against mistreatment or to overturn laws that targeted them. From H.I.V.-based discrimination to the fight for marriage equality to President Trump’s attempt to ban transgender people from the military, courts across the country have played a key role in the story of L.G.B.T.Q. rights in America.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/us/legal-history-lgbtq-rights-timeline.html

Legal Toolkit

Legal Talk Network

Published:	June 19, 2019
Podcast:	Legal Toolkit

EPISODE NOTES

Are you slipping on keeping up with your clients and meeting important deadlines? For many lawyers, they use paralegals and legal assistants to help them practice law with superior organization and efficiency. In this Legal Toolkit, Jared Correia hosts Keith Shannon in a discussion about the importance of paralegals and legal assistants in the legal profession. They define both roles and the types of work they can and cannot do according to ABA guidelines for paralegal services. They also talk about the types of law office technology and training that lawyers should invest in for their paralegals to help maximize skills in needed tech and e-Discovery. Finishing up, they address how to hire qualified paralegals and avoid paralegal burnout.

Keith Shannon is an instructor in the paralegal technology training program at Central Piedmont Community College in North Carolina.

Special thanks to our sponsors Scorpion, Answer1, and TimeSolv.

https://legaltalknetwork.com/podcasts/legal-toolkit/2019/06/the-power-of-paralegals-and-legal-assistants/

Asian Journal

June 15, 2019

“Every generation is responsible for creating democracy anew, a democracy that is relevant and responsive to the needs of that generation. One that expands upon and completes the previous work of the prior generation. In my view, the civil rights movement that began in the ’50s remains unfinished. Daily we hear in the news about actions like #Blacklivesmatter, #Metoo, and #Timesup—just to name a few. Frederick Douglass said, “Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, or degrade them, neither person nor property is safe.”…We must ensure that income inequality doesn’t translate into a two-tiered justice system.” – California Chief Justice Tani Gorre Cantil-Sakauye during the March 2019 State of the Judiciary Address. 

https://www.asianjournal.com/life-style/lifestyle-columnists/the-state-of-californias-judiciary-according-to-filipina%e2%80%afchief-justice-tani-gorre-cantil-sakauye/

Scotusblog

June 12, 2019

Last week, Justice John Paul Stevens sat down for a wide-ranging telephone interview with me. The occasion was the recent publication of his memoir, “The Making of a Justice: Reflections on My First 94 Years” (Little, Brown and Company, 2019). A lightly edited transcript of our conversation follows.

https://www.scotusblog.com/2019/06/ask-the-author-interview-with-justice-john-paul-stevens/

Los Angeles Times

June 14, 2019

This year, a landmark case challenging the constitutionality of money bail is expected to come before the California Supreme Court. This is the culmination of an effort to reform the state’s troubled money bail system, pitting justice-reform advocates against the for-profit bail industry.

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-levenson-cash-bail-california-supreme-court-humphrey-20190614-story.html

California Supreme Court Historical Society

Spring / Summer 2019

When Joshua Paul Groban took the oath of office as an associate justice of the California Supreme Court on January 3, 2019, he was in one sense a familiar face to attorneys and judges throughout the state. As a senior advisor to Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr., Justice Groban screened and interviewed more than a thousand candidates for judicial office. Over an eight-year span, the governor, with Groban’s assistance and advice, appointed 644 judges, including four of the seven current justices on the California Supreme Court and 52 justices on the California Courts of Appeal. These appointments have transformed California’s judiciary.

https://www.cschs.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/2019-Newsletter-Spring-Justice-Groban.pdf

A survey of the national landscape of nonlawyer navigator programs in

state courts assisting self- represented litigants

by

Mary E. McClymont

The Justice Lab at Georgetown Law Center

Project Advisory Board:

Katherine R. Alteneder, Tanina Rostain, & Rebecca L. Sandefur

https://georgetown.app.box.com/s/t2zf6mjv2x74w944t8ejbsku7i2jc7mc

CEBBLOG

June 12, 2019

Regardless of whether you go with the noticed motion procedure or the alternative writ procedure, when initiating a writ proceeding in superior court you start with a writ petition. Here’s how you draft one.

https://blog.ceb.com/2019/06/12/how-to-prepare-a-writ-petition-for-superior-court/#more-23459

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