Appellate Practice
Dec. 22, 2015
The final word: civil law at the high court
Recent opinions demonstrate the court's role in reconciling California law with developments in federal law; in each case, the court applied a new U.S. Supreme Court decision in resolving a pending state court appeal. By Joseph M. Lipner and BJ Ard
Stanley Mosk Courthouse
Joseph M. Lipner
Judge
Los Angeles County Superior Court
Harvard Law School, 1988
The state Supreme Court is responsible for reconciling California common law and statutes with developments in federal law. Recent opinions demonstrate the court's role in this process; in each, the court applied a new U.S. Supreme Court decision to resolve a pending state court appeal. In one, the state Supreme Court built on the federal high court's opinion to subject certain patent settlements to state antitrust...
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