SAN FRANCISCO — Contrary to appellate specialists’ hopes, a split California Supreme Court on Monday approved appeal courts’ use of so-called Palma notices to stay proceedings in which trial judges have issued obviously erroneous rulings.
Appellate lawyers have said such notices are often issued without any input from the opposing party. But the high court compared them to tentative rulings that give trial court judges and all parties to the litigation insight into the appellate court’s thinking.
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