Law Practice
Apr. 2, 2013
Not an April Fools' Day column
The first Monday in April of 1996 was the last time my column appeared on April Fools' Day. Would it not be interesting to see what I wrote about then, a sort of 17-year-old time capsule?





2nd Appellate District, Division 6
Arthur Gilbert
Presiding Justice
2nd District Court of Appeal, Division 6
UC Berkeley School of Law, 1963
Arthur's previous columns are available on gilbertsubmits.blogspot.com.
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Today, as usual, my column appears on the first Monday of the month. Today is a court holiday in celebration of the birth of Cesar Chavez, the great champion of farm worker rights. Today is also April Fools' Day, but this unfortunate coincidence of the sublime and the ridiculous occurring on the same day is of no significance. I would have preferred we celebrate Chavez's birth on his actual birthday,...
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