Author: Leah Spero and Max Bilsborough

The California Supreme Court’s average time from briefing to oral argument 2023–24

The California Supreme Court’s average time from briefing to oral argument 2023–24

Overview Attorneys preparing for oral argument before the California Supreme Court need to know how long it will take the court to order the case on calendar for argument. A previous SCOCAblog article showed that in general the court is taking longer to do so than in past years. To give attorneys the best estimate of the current pace, we evaluated the court’s most recent performance by calculating the average time it took for argument to occur from September 2023 to June 2024.[1] For that period we found: We also tracked the interval between the preliminary oral argument notification letter...