Appellate Practice,
Law Practice
Dec. 5, 2022
Remembrance of times in the future with apologies to Marcel Proust
What is unusual is that I am writing about an event that has not yet occurred. But now as you read this column, it already happened. Consider this column a combination of anticipation and reminiscence about the future.





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.
This column, being something over #320, is the most bizarre of any I have written. And it is the scariest. (Teaser to induce readers to move on to the next paragraph.)
I am now in the present for me, composing the second paragraph of this column, which of course you are reading now in the present for you, and the past for me. Nothing unusual about that. Not one of you has been around watching me staring at the keyboard. You don't experience...
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