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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
Wednesday, February 26, 2025 5:11 pm Uncategorized--> For the fifth time, the Supreme Court conferenced today on Office of the State Public Defender v. Bonta (see here), the original writ petition attacking California’s death penalty system as racially discriminatory, and for the fifth time there was no ruling. The case doesn’t appear on the list of today’s conference results.Unless the court makes a rare non-conference-day ruling, it will be at least two weeks before we hear anything, because, with oral arguments on Wednesday, there’s no conference next week.I really thought today would be the day we’d see both a decision about what the court wants to do with the petition, and, probably, one or more separate statements. Wednesday, February 26, 2025 12:01 pm Uncategorized--> Tomorrow morning, the Supreme Court will file its opinion in Ranger v. Alamitos Bay Yacht Club. (Briefs here; oral argument video here.)The case is expected to address whether a maritime worker described by 33 United States Code section 902(3)(A)-(F) within the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act (33 U.S.C. § 901 et seq.) may bring an action to recover for a workplace injury under the general maritime law or whether California’s workers’ compensation scheme provides the worker’s exclusive remedy. The court granted review in December 2023. More about the case here.This will be the second of four opinions in cases argued on the December calendar. It’s also the second workers’ compensation opinion from that calendar. The court decided California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation v. Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board last week. (See here.)Opinions in the other two December cases have different due dates: People v. Patton — a Senate Bill 1437 murder resentencing case — should be decided by March 3, while an opinion in the People v. McGhee death penalty appeal isn’t due until April 3 because of post-argument briefing. The other argued but undecided cases are the three on the January calendar (opinions due by April 7) and the four on the February calendar (opinions due by May 5).The Ranger opinion can be viewed tomorrow starting at 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, February 25, 2025 5:40 pm Uncategorized--> Office of the State Public Defender v. Bonta is on the list of matters scheduled for consideration at tomorrow’s Supreme Court conference. That’s the original writ petition attacking California’s death penalty system based on what it claims is “[e]xtensive empirical evidence demonstrat[ing] that [the system] is administered in
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