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Jake Dear

Jake Dear

Chief Supervising Attorney of the California Supreme Court, serving under three Chief Justices across a 40-year career (UC Davis School of Law, Class of 1983).

Aug 20, 2026

64:18
Uh, c- can you talk a little about that and what it felt like from the inside of the California Supreme Court as all of this was going on?
64:24
Yeah.
64:25
In, in, in the closing year or, and, and, and months of, of the George tenure, um, there had been quite a bit of, um...
64:37
There was a lot of...
64:38
There was animosity that was coming his way from a group that styled or called themselves the Alliance, uh, California Alliance of Judges or some term like that.
64:49
A, a murky group.
64:51
There was never any list of names, but, um, there were a, a few names that, that were surfacing regularly.
69:13
But are there any cases that you know that when they are accepted for hearing and decision that the court as a whole has a sense that this is really important, that, that history is looking over your shoulder, um, in terms of what happens with this particular decision? D- are there cases like that that stick out in your mind? Uh-

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