Bloomberg Law has several articles of appellate note:Supreme Court Conservatives Are Less Likely to Explain Recusals — Liberal justices often explain decision to step aside in cases; Court’s 6-3 conservative majority eschews the practiceJustice Jackson Is Open to Binding Supreme Court Ethics Code — Most courts have enforceable code, Jackson said; Second justice…

Today’s DJ has PJ Gilbert’s monthly column, titled Short — In August, when both minds and readers are on vacation, I reflect on the art of brevity in writing and ponder the wisdom of aging.Today’s DJ also has the monthly Exceptionally Appealing column, this one titled Appellate Crash: What we’d miss, about what we’d…

The ABA journal has:Chemerinsky: Saving American democracy will require constitutional reforms and Supreme Court term limits, about the Dean’s latest book No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United States.Legal thriller author David Ellis’ day job? Appellate court justice — Justice David W. Ellis has served on the Illinois Appellate…

The Recorder has California State Judges to Receive 2.6% Pay Hike — Recent salary increases negotiated by some California state workers mean statutory pay hikes for judges.

• The change will bump trial court judges’ earnings to just under $245,000. Justices on the state’s six courts of appeal will earn $280,000, while associate justices on the California

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Today’s DJ has retired 4/1 Justice Patricia Benke’s article: Reflections on oral argument from an appellate justice turned practitioner — Oral arguments can influence appellate decisions, especially when they introduce new facts or precedents that were not considered during the briefing process. Such arguments can change the expected outcome or the type of relief granted.

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The NLJ has With Amicus Appointments, Ex-Clerks Get Coveted Chance to Argue at SCOTUS — They won’t get paid. It’s going to be extremely time-consuming. There is no prior counsel to review their work. And they’ll spend months drafting briefs and preparing for an argument where the best case scenario is achieving a victory on…

 Law360 has 9th Circ. Chief Judge Cleared Of Judicial Misconduct ClaimsThe Judicial Council of the Ninth Circuit on Friday cleared its chief judge of judicial misconduct claims alleging she failed to timely investigate a Los Angeles judge’s decision to have a lawyer handcuffed and detained during contempt proceedings, finding the allegations were unfounded. In…