Judges and Judiciary
Sep. 1, 2015
Justices embrace the impulse to instruct
It's back to school for some lawyers when appellate courts give them a failing grade. Courts of appeal can come to resemble law school lecture halls as justices hand out metaphorical dunce caps and write corrective lesson plans.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
It's back to school for some lawyers when appellate courts give them a failing grade.
Justices have handy tools for curbing errant individual practitioners. They can OK
sanctions, refer bad actors to the State Bar and make their displeasure manifest by
naming names in published opinions.
But when higher courts spot ...
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