Appellate Law

A light-hearted Friday post: what is the standard of music on appeal?

By Greg May

I wrote last year about In re Christopher B., case no. C077467 (3rd Dist. Sept. 28, 2015), a cautionary tale about a trial court’s “clarification” of its order (read: “void modification for lack of jurisdiction”).

Justice Butz’s concurring opinion opened with this sentence: “With apologies to Dolly Parton, here I go again, concurring with myself.” I like it when judges write colloquially, but I think I would have used a different musical reference if I were in Justice Butz’s place:

What can I say? I loved the 80s!

Full post as published by The California Blog of Appeal on October 28, 2016 (boomark / email).