Our Blog Is in the Top 100!

We are very excited that CEB’s blog was named by the ABA Journal as one of the top 100 law blogs! Thanks to all of our loyal readers and subscribers for your support since our launch in 2010. Our goal is to always provide useful and relevant legal content for California attorneys. We appreciate your [...]

Justice George’s Surprising Retirement Timed for Schwarzenegger Replacement

California Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald George announced yesterday that he is retiring after 38 years on the bench while he is “at the top of [his] game.” SF Gate reports that Justice George wants his successor to be appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, expressing “a great sense of reassurance in the exemplary level of [...]

Thank you, Justice Stevens

After 34 years on the Supreme Court, Justice Stevens will retire at the end of this term.  As described by the National Law Journal, Justice Stevens leaves a “diverse legal legacy,” including …authoring landmark decisions ranging from Reno v. ACLU, the 1997 decision that anointed the Internet with broad First Amendment protection, to Chevron v. [...]

California Law Professor Is Court Nominee

President Obama nominated Goodwin Liu, a former law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Liu is a law professor and associate dean at the University of California at Berkeley. Since this announcement on February 24, 2010, there has arisen a “vigorous debate [...]