Cheryl Miller
Senior Writer at The Recorder (California)
A chronicle of the intersection of state politics and legal policy by Cheryl Miller of The Recorder and https://t.co/ViwWygqeo8. cmiller(at)https://t.co/RhCavwlfCz
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2 days ago |
law.com | Cheryl Miller
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, hearing arguments over President Donald Trump's bid to redefine birthright citizenship, pressed a U.S. Department of Justice attorney Wednesday to explain how the 14th Amendment could be parsed to exclude U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants and certain visa-holding parents.
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3 days ago |
law.com | Cheryl Miller
California leaders late Monday swiftly appealed a federal judge's order dismissing their lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's authority to unilaterally impose tariffs on goods imported from a range of international sources. Earlier in the evening, U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley of California's Northern District had ruled that the state's complaint belonged in the U.S. Court of International Trade.
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1 week ago |
law.com | Cheryl Miller
California's state bar leaders on Friday approved additional scoring help for those who failed the February licensing exam, a move that will push the overall pass rate from just under 56% to at least 63%. After hours of debate at a remote meeting, the committee of bar examiners agreed to boost essay marks for a specific group of eligible applicants whose overall scores fell between 1350 and just below 1390.
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1 week ago |
law.com | Cheryl Miller
California's Supreme Court on Wednesday proposed shifting oversight of the biannual lawyer licensing exam to the state bar's committee of bar examiners in an apparent rebuke of the board of trustees following the disastrous February test. Acting on its own motion, the high court released a series of recommended amendments to the Rules of Court, including the swap of exam responsibility. The proposals will now go out for 45 days of public comment before the court ultimately acts.
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1 week ago |
law.com | Cheryl Miller
A defendant who unwittingly wired a six-figure settlement to a "spoofing" imposter must still pay the real plaintiff, a San Diego court of appeal held Tuesday. The Fourth District Court of Appeal, Division One found that "several red flags" should have alerted defendant Corbyn Restaurant Development Corp. and its attorneys at Tyson & Mendes that emailed requests with fund-deposit instructions, supposedly sent by plaintiff's counsel, were fraudulent.
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New: California's state bar announces that they found three instances of people who took the February 2025 exam being scored on an essay that belonged to another applicant. Other mistakes identified, too.
Given that it's nighttime, how would you know what color that smoke is? To me it just looks like ... smoke.
Black smoke poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney Wednesday evening, indicating that no pope was elected on the conclave's first ballot. https://t.co/ytlqqABhfc