Appellate Practice,
California Courts of Appeal,
Judges and Judiciary
May 7, 2021
Fixing appellate delay
Three months ago, I filed a complaint with the Commission on Judicial Performance about egregious decisional delay by three justices of the 3rd District Court of Appeal in Sacramento, listing 150 appeals adjudicated in 2018-2020 which had languished for at least two years and as much as seven years from the completion of briefing to submission for decision.
Jon B. Eisenberg
Email: jon@eisenbergappeals.com
Jon is a retired appellate attorney and the author of California Practice Guide: Civil Appeals and Writs.
Three months ago, I filed a complaint with the Commission on Judicial Performance about egregious decisional delay by three justices of the 3rd District Court of Appeal in Sacramento, listing 150 appeals adjudicated in 2018-2020 which had languished for at least two years and as much as seven years from the completion of briefing to submission for decision. Three weeks later, retired Court of Appeal Justice Gary Strankman and I asked the California Supreme Court to tr...
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