Roundup of 2024 and What’s Coming in 2025

The California Appellate Law Podcast

Here is our 2024 roundup, and in exchange we have a request for suggestions for 2025 content. If you are an attorney, what content do you prefer? Check out the poll.

Now here’s the roundup of updates for 2025:

📅 MSJ Deadlines Are Updated: Remember 81-20-11. With the MSJ hearing as the target, motions must be filed beforehand 81 days, oppositions 20 days, and replies 11 days.

🥈 Making a 2nd attempt at an MSJ? You’ll need leave of court.

⌨️ The court reporter shortage is before the Supreme Court. Stay tuned.

Here’s the roundup of notable cases from 2024:

• Biden admin takes aim at judges issuing sweeping nationwide injunctions. (But Tim asks: then who will take aim at federal authorities exercising sweeping nationwide powers?)
• Will anti-SLAPPs still be a thing in the Ninth Circuit by the end of 2025? Stay tuned for updates from the en banc panel in Martinez v. ZoomInfo Techs.
• The appellate courts continued to crack down on attorney incivility, with the court vowing that offending attorneys “will be called out and immortalized in the California Appellate Reports.”

Appellate Specialist Jeff Lewis' biography, LinkedIn profile, and Twitter feed.

Appellate Specialist Tim Kowal's biography, LinkedIn profile, Twitter feed, and YouTube page.

Sign up for Not To Be Published, Tim Kowal’s weekly legal update, or view his blog of recent cases.

Other items discussed in the episode:

• Videos from this episode will be posted at Tim Kowal’s YouTube channel.

1. Amendments to California's Motion for Summary Judgment Statute:
   • Assembly Bill 2049 Text: Official legislative text detailing the changes effective January 1, 2025.
   • Client Alert: New Summary Judgment Law in California Effective January 1, 2025: An overview of the new law and its implications.
   • New Changes to California's Summary Judgment Process: What You Need to Know: Insights into how the amendments will affect litigation strategies.
2. Court Reporter Shortage and Audio Recording in Courtrooms:
   • California Courts - Newsroom: Updates and news releases from the California judicial branch.

• Supreme Court Arguments on TikTok's Foreign Ownership and Nationwide Injunctions:
  • SCOTUSblog: Comprehensive coverage of upcoming Supreme Court cases and arguments.
• Civility in Legal Practice:
  • Masimo Corporation v. The Vanderpool Law Firm Case Summary: Details of the case addressing issues of civility and discovery sanctions.
  • The Uncivil War Raging Before the Cali