Miscellaneous

Outreach in California

By Anne Skove, Esq.

After reading about Washington's efforts, Fritz Ohlrich, Clerk of the Supreme Court of California, wrote to tell us about the California Supreme Court's Special Oral Argument Outreach Session:

The California Supreme Court has regularly conducted oral argument sessions in San Francisco (headquarters) four months each year; in Los Angeles four months; and in Sacramento two months each year, since 1879 (the court doesn't hold oral argument in July and August). For the past seven years the court has held one special outreach oral argument session each year.

In October the court will hold its 2008 special session at California State University-Palm Desert campus. While this session is to be held on a university campus, the target audience is high school students.

An important feature of our program is having local trial court judges and local attorneys visit the participating high school classes before the session to explain the materials and to brief the students before they actually attend the oral argument.

Another special feature of our program is that the entire one-and-a-half-day session will be cable-cast statewide.

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See also State Supreme Court to Hold Special Outreach Session in Riverside County's Coachella Valley, press release (September 17, 2008).

For more information about the program, please contact Lynn Holton, Public Information Officer, at 415-865-7740.

Thanks to Ohlrich and Crawford for the information!

Full post as published by court-o-rama.org on September 23, 2008 (boomark / email).