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LIVE WEBCAST - 03/05/09 California Supreme Court Oral Arguments on Proposition 8 - Same Sex Marriage 9:00AM (PST) http://www.calchannel.com The California Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Thursday, March 5, 2009, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., in three cases challenging the constitutionality of Proposition 8, a statewide ballot initiative that was passed by a majority of California voters in November 2008. The California Channel will broadcast this event live via your local cable provider and on our website*.*Due to the high demand we expect for this event, if you have problems connecting then the server has reached its...

SAN FRANCISCO - Justice Joyce Kennard is the longest-serving member of the California Supreme Court, appointed by then-Gov. George Deukmejian in 1989. Justice Carol Corrigan is the newest, taking the bench in January after being tapped by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Both go before voters this fall. In this so-called retention election, there is no campaign and no opponents for the nonpartisan office. Voters will be asked a yes-no question: Should the justices be retained? To keep their seat on the state's highest court for the next 12 years, each candidate must get more yes votes than no votes. In the...

California Supreme Court candidate Carol Corrigan won high praise Friday from a State Bar commission and most lawyers, judges and others commenting on her nomination in advance of next week's confirmation hearing. Corrigan, 57, a state appeals court justice in San Francisco since 1994, was nominated by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Dec. 9 to succeed Justice Janice Rogers Brown. Brown resigned from the state's high court June 30 to become a federal appeals court judge in Washington, D.C. Corrigan, Schwarzenegger's first Supreme Court nominee, has been described by most legal commentators as a moderate Republican close to the ideological center of...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A judicial vetting committee of the State Bar is ranking California Supreme Court nominee Justice Carol A. Corrigan with the second-highest rating the panel offers, according to documents released Friday. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger nominated Corrigan, a San Francisco appeals court justice, to the state's highest court Dec. 9 to fill the vacancy on the seven-member court created when Justice Janice Rogers Brown resigned to fill a federal judicial post in the District of Columbia. The Commission on Judicial Nominees Evaluation, which consists largely of attorneys in various practices, told Schwarzenegger that, after reviewing her extensive record...

A centrist Republican woman, not a polarizing payoff for the right, is headed for California's high court. Carol Corrigan, a state appeals court judge, will replace Janice Rogers Brown, a conservative ideologue named by Bush to a federal appeals court in Washington. The contrast couldn't be more instructive. Corrigan's courtroom idol is retiring Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. "She's is a centrist ... a real consensus builder,'' Corrigan told the Los Angeles Times. Compare that with the go-it-alone Brown, whose record was so divisive that her Bush appointment was delayed for months. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger gets points for going...

Oral arguments in a health care case ended abruptly Wednesday when Los Angeles lawyer Robert Olson collapsed to the floor during a brutal barrage of unfriendly questioning. First District Court of Appeal Justices Carol Corrigan and Stuart Pollak had verbally hammered Olson for several minutes when he apparently fainted. His legs buckled and he fell backward, hitting his head hard on the floor. The California Highway Patrol officers who provide courtroom security revived an obviously dazed Olson and took him by ambulance to St. Francis Memorial Hospital. An emergency room nurse later said he underwent tests and that there was...

SACRAMENTO -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger named Carol A. Corrigan to the California Supreme Court this morning, replacing an ideological conservative with a judicial moderate. Corrigan is a former prosecutor, former Democrat and self-described centrist who will replace the notable conservative Justice Janice Rogers Brown, who left last summer to take up a presidential appointment to a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. "She's a brilliant jurist," Schwarzenegger said today, referring to Corrigan as "classy," "experienced" and "knowledgeable." Corrigan, 57, becomes the sixth Republican on the court. One justice is a Democrat. Corrigan's appointment leaves no African Americans on the state's...

SACRAMENTO -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger named San Francisco appellate judge Carol Corrigan to the California Supreme Court on Friday, deciding on a moderate Republican and former prosecutor to fill the post of conservative jurist Janice Rogers Brown. "This is the best of the best that we have in the state," Schwarzenegger said during a Capitol news conference called to introduce her. Corrigan, 57, a Republican sitting on the 1st District Court of Appeal in San Francisco, succeeds Brown, who resigned in June after the U.S. Senate confirmed her to the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. Brown was the only...

San Francisco -- The California Supreme Court begins its 2005-06 term Tuesday one member short following the June departure of Justice Janice Rogers Brown, who left to sit on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Brown's departure paves the way for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to fill perhaps his most important post. At the request of Schwarzenegger, a State Bar evaluation committee is reviewing Justice Vance Raye of the 3rd District Court of Appeal in Sacramento, and Justice Carol Corrigan, of the 1st District Court of Appeal in San Francisco.

SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has sent the names of three candidates for his first appointment to the California Supreme Court to a State Bar commission that screens judicial nominees, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Saturday. The three candidates include two state appeals court justices - Carol Corrigan of San Francisco and Vance Raye of Sacramento - and U.S. District Judge Morrison England of Sacramento, according the Chronicle, which cited an unidentified source who insisted on anonymity because the governor has not made the names public. Schwarzenegger spokeswoman Julie Soderlund told The Associated Press Saturday that the governor had...