BREAKING: Law bloggers mostly agree with each other
[Editor’s note: this is all in good fun.] Our friends at At the Lectern fired their latest salvo in the Great Blog Battle of 2026, which provides an opportunity to explain why per curiam decisions deserve special attention when parsing the California Supreme Court’s annual decisions. Majority opinion output matters most for assessing the current court’s productivity because that’s how it decides the overwhelming proportion of cases it resolves on the merits. At the Lectern is correct, of course, that a per curiam decision is still a merits resolution, however summary it may be. But the reasons the court may...
