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Judges and Judiciary

Nov. 7, 2022

Bitching and Praising

This praise is macro and intentional because it comes in abundance for our Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye, who led the California Judiciary for the past 12 years.

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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Let's start with what regular readers have lately come to expect in my more recent columns, relentless bitching (not "bitchin"). This is a continuation of my rant over the bastardization of language. Hmm looks like I just bastardized it. Cole Porter's song "Anything Goes," performed in the musical Anything Goes in 1934, comes to mind. If you don't know who Cole Porter is, I would prefer not knowing about it. A few of the lyrics make my point:

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