(Subscription required) JAMS President Kimberly Taylor said she was initially surprised to hear that the court’s case filings were down based on the healthy growth the ADR provider has seen nationally in both mediation and arbitration. In the San Francisco Bay Area, in particular, Taylor said, arbitrations are “up a lot.”

The Judicial Council at its November 17 meeting will receive a report summarizing the activities of a working group established to identify, refine, and enhance successful court practices that emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic.

(Subscription required) Jurors are motivated by a combination of “core values,” which are the fundamental beliefs and highest personal priorities that motivate us to decide an issue of major consequence, including who prevails at trial, according to IMS Expert Services' Chris Ritter.

Looking at nearly 1,000 decisions from 2010 to 2022, SCOCAblog finds “a quarter were automatic [death penalty] appeals [excluded from the count are the small number of opinions deciding death row inmates’ habeas corpus petitions (e.g., here)] , about a third were general criminal, and 40% were general civil.”