Judges and Judiciary
Apr. 20, 2001
Crystal Clear
Certain appellate judges have recently changed their writing style. They are removing case citations from the text and putting them in footnotes to make their writing clearer. This is a change for the better, and hopefully the trend will spread.
Daniel U. Smith
Daniel is a certified appellate specialist in Marin County, serves on the Judicial Council's Civil Jury Instructions Task Force and belongs to the California Academy of Appellate Lawyers.
Certain appellate judges have recently changed their writing style. They are removing case citations from the text and putting them in footnotes to make their writing clearer. This is a change for the better, and hopefully the trend will spread.
The first judge to make this change was Justice Rodney Davis. In People v. Dey, 84 Cal.App.4th 1318 (2000), Davis wrote: "Relying on Wimberly v. Superior Court and People v. Gregg, defendant contends that the discover...
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