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Judges and Judiciary,
Government

Nov. 8, 2014

New justice opens up after win

Gov. Jerry Brown's lieutenants first contacted Mariano-Florentino Cuellar about a seat on the state Supreme Court in 2011. Three years later, he has been appointed and safely confirmed to a 12-year term.

By Emily Green

Daily Journal Staff Writer

Mariano-Florentino Cuellar played hard to get.

Gov. Jerry Brown's lieutenants first contacted him about a seat on the state Supreme Court in 2011. Was he interested, they wanted to know.

Cuellar, who goes by Tino and was a Stanford Law School professor, begged off. He was honored but the timing wasn't right.

"I had just come back from Washington, working two years in the federal government, being away ...

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