Appellate Practice,
California Courts of Appeal
Jan. 22, 2019
Resolving Appeals Faster
Is there anything you can do to get your case on appeal decided faster? Is there anything the appellate courts can do to improve the situation?





James Ardaiz
Of Counsel
Moskovitz Appellate Team
5260 N Palm Ave
Fresno , CA 93704
James is former administrative presiding justice of the 5th District Court of Appeal.

Christopher Cottle
Of Counsel
Moskovitz Appellate Team
Christopher Cottle is former presiding justice of the 6th District Court of Appeal.

Myron Moskovitz
Legal Director
Moskovitz Appellate Team
90 Crocker Ave
Piedmont , CA 94611-3823
Phone: (510) 384-0354
Email: myronmoskovitz@gmail.com
UC Berkeley SOL Boalt Hal
Myron Moskovitz is author of Strategies On Appeal (CEB, 2021; digital: ceb.com; print: https://store.ceb.com/strategies-on-appeal-2) and Winning An Appeal (5th ed., Carolina Academic Press). He is Director of Moskovitz Appellate Team, a group of former appellate judges and appellate research attorneys who handle and consult on appeals and writs. See MoskovitzAppellateTeam.com. The Daily Journal designated Moskovitz Appellate Team as one of California's top boutique law firms. Myron can be contacted at myronmoskovitz@gmail.com or (510) 384-0354. Prior "Moskovitz On Appeal" columns can be found at http://moskovitzappellateteam.com/blog.

MOSKOVITZ ON APPEAL
Do appeals take too long?
In a civil appeal our firm is currently handling, we filed our notice of appeal in January of 2016. All briefing (both ours and our opponent's) was completed by October of 2016. Each party then asked for oral argument.
And now -- two years after we filed our last brief and read...
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