| | CALIFORNIA / High court justice to leave bench June 30 / Janice Rogers Brown to move to federal appeals court in D.C. |
 | | Justice Janice Rogers Brown will leave the California Supreme Court on June 30 for her new job as a federal appeals court judge in Washington, D.C., the state court announced Monday. |
 | | Brown, a 1996 appointee of Gov. Pete Wilson and generally the California court's most conservative member, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on June 8 to the Court of Appeals in the nation's capital, widely regarded as the most important of the 13 federal appeals courts. |
 | | Among the 48 cases that have been argued, and must be decided by the end of August, are a constitutional challenge to the appointment structure of the state Coastal Commission, three suits involving parental disputes between same-sex couples, and a lesbian couple's discrimination suit against a country club. |
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