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October 8, 2025 Oral Argument Cases

S286453 - PEOPLE v. SHAW

  1. Appellant’s Petition for Review Filed on August 16, 2024
  2. Appellant’s Opening Brief on the Merits Filed on January 22, 2025
  3. Respondent’s Answer Brief on the Merits Filed on May 22, 2025
  4. Appellant’s Reply Brief on the Merits Filed on June 13, 2025

S285426 - SAN JOSE, CITY OF v. HOWARD JARVIS TAXPAYERS ASSOCIATION

  1. Appellants’ Petition for Review Filed on June 10, 2024
  2. Respondent’s Answer to Petition for Review Filed on June 28, 2024
  3. Appellants’ Reply to Answer to Petition for Review Filed on July 8, 2024
  4. Appellants’ Opening Brief on the Merits Filed on October 14, 2024
  5. Respondent’s Answer Brief on the Merits Filed on December 13, 2024
  6. Appellants’ Reply Brief on the Merits Filed on January 22, 2025
  7. Amicus Curiae Brief of League of California Cities and California State Association of Counties Filed on February 24, 2025
  8. Amicus Curiae, League of California Cities and California State Association of Counties, Request for Judicial Notice Filed on February 24, 2025
  9. Appellants’ Response to Amicus Curiae Brief Filed on March 26, 2025

S159120 - PEOPLE v. DEMOLLE (ALEX)

  1. Appellant’s Opening Brief Filed on February 24, 2016
  2. Respondent’s Brief Filed on October 17, 2016
  3. Appellant’s Reply Brief Filed on December 15, 2017
  4. Appellant’s Supplemental Brief Filed on October 8, 2024
  5. Respondent’s Supplemental Brief Filed on May 1, 2025
  6. Appellant’s Supplemental Brief Filed on June 5, 2025
  7. Respondent’s Focus Issues Letter Filed on September 22, 2025
  8. Appellant’s Focus Issue Letter Filed on September 25, 2025

S257844 - PEOPLE v. KOPP

 (Guerrero, C. J., not participating; Rothschild, P. J., assigned justice pro tempore)

  1. Appellant, Christi J. Kopp, Petition for Review Filed on September 5, 2019
  2. Appellant, Jason Samuel Hernandez, Petition for Review Filed on September 9, 2019
  3. Appellant, Jason Samuel Hernandez, Opening Brief on the Merits Filed on August 7, 2020
  4. Respondent’s Answer Brief on the Merits Filed on December 10, 2020
  5. Appellant, Jason Samuel Hernandez, Reply Brief on the Merits Filed on January 28, 2021
  6. Amicus Curiae Brief of American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California, East Bay Community Law Center, Contra Costa Public Defenders Office, California Public Defenders Association, San Francisco Public Defender, and Office of the State Public Defender Filed on February 22, 2021
  7. Amicus Curiae Brief of Public Counsel, Western Center on Law and Poverty, Fines and Fees Justice Center, Center for Responsible Lending, Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto, The Insight Center, and Legal Services for Prisoners with Children Filed on March 2, 2021
  8. Amicus Curiae Brief of Beverly Hills Bar Association, Bar Association of San Francisco, and Los Angeles County Bar Association Filed on March 2, 2021
  9. Amicus Curiae Brief of Poverty Law Scholars Filed on March 3, 2021
  10. Amicus Curiae Brief of Beth A. Colgan Filed on March 3, 2021
  11. Respondent’s Response to Amicus Curiae Brief Filed on May 13, 2021
  12. Amicus Curiae Brief of The University of California, Irvine School of Law Consumer Law Clinic; Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area; The United CORE; All of Us or None; Legal Services for Prisoners with Children; Legal Services of Northern California; Justice2Jobs Coalition; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Western Regional Advocacy Project; and GLIDE Filed on December 8, 2021