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California Courts of Appeal

Jan. 4, 2019

An open letter to our appellate court justices

You have strayed from the traditions of legal literature. Where is the flair?

James P. McBride

1290 B St, Ste 318
Hayward , CA 94541-2967

Email: jimmcbridelaw@gmail.com

James is an attorney in Hayward.

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You have strayed from the traditions of legal literature. Where is the flair? You publish dense wordy decisions whereas your audience of practicing attorneys longs for flesh and blood narrative. Please leave it to professors, treatise writers, and law review students to put your decisions into perspective. Who has the time or the inclination to plod through exhaustive erudition that pours down week after week in the published decisions?

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