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Jackson Lucky has been a neutral with JAMS since August 2021. He serves as a mediator, arbitrator, and private judge for civil and family law cases. Before joining JAMS, Judge Lucky served on the Riverside Superior Court for thirteen years. His assignments included unlimited civil and family law. Judge Lucky was the supervising judge of the family law division from 2012 to 2016 and the criminal supervising judge from 2017 until 2019....
I’ve been playing with Go recently. I like it. I’d read about Go and watched a few videos about it, but I’d never spent time writing Go in the editor. I use Hugo, a static site generator written in Go to make this site, so I thought it made sense to take the language for a spin. What I like about Go: It’s a small language, which makes it easier to learn....
Intro I’ve been learning the Go programming language in earnest this week. (See Why Go.) I believe that test-driven development (TDD) makes me write better code, so I wanted to start with tests. Testing and assertions I found an excellent paid resource, The Go Testing Bible video series. The author, Elliot Forbes, posts free videos on his TutorialEdge YouTube channel. Go has a robust testing package in its standard library. However, the testing syntax looked strange to me because it doesn’t use test assertions like I’m used to from languages like Node (JavaScript), Ruby, Python, and (my favorite) Elm....
Use Git and lastmod frontmatter to add metadata for the date a post is updated
When formatting dates in Go, use January 2, 2006.
I know the blog’s looking sparse. I’m migrating content. Give me a few weeks. Or months.
To make the most of mediation, one must understand its purpose. Too often, mediation participants treat mediation like a nonbinding substitute hearing on the merits: a trial proxy. It’s not. Mediators have no authority to bind the parties. Mediators cannot discuss the merits of the case once mediation ends. So, if mediators have no authority and no ability to advise outside parties of their views of the merits, what’s the goal?...
The ethics of social media and email
A representative list of cases interpreting People v. Sanchez (2016) 63 Cal.4th 665