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Oct. 30, 2026

Goorvitch brings writs, criminal, regulatory experience to appellate bench

Justice Stephen I. Goorvitch, seeking an eight-year term on the 2nd District Court of Appeal, brings experience deciding environmental writs, criminal cases and disputes over government regulatory authority.

Goorvitch brings writs, criminal, regulatory experience to appellate bench
Justice Stephen I. Goorvitch

Justice Stephen I. Goorvitch drew on his trial court experience handling environmental writs when he wrote a unanimous 2nd District opinion upholding a ruling that set aside Long Beach's approval of a self-service car wash beside elementary school playgrounds.

In Long Beach Unified School District v. City of Long Beach (2025), he found the city had declared the project exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act without considering the school district's ev...

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