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The Mosk Seat

Does Stanley Mosk\’s California Supreme Court seat naturally go to a Jew? In the political jockeying left by the death at 88 of California\’s longest-serving justice, the debate begins again: Is there a special \”Jewish seat\” that deserves to be enshrined on the high court?

In filling the seat Mosk occupied for 37 years, here are some names being mentioned: former L.A. City Attorney Burt Pines and former Rep. Lynn Schenk, both close aides to Gov. Gray Davis; Arthur Gilbert, presiding justice of the Court of Appeal in Ventura (and a jazz pianist); Appellate Justice Norman Epstein and U.S. District Judge Nora Manella. Personally I\’m for Pines (though I hear he eschews it). The Manella name has a certain poetic impact; her father\’s firm, Irell & Manella, was among the early \”Jewish firms\” in Los Angeles, responding to discrimination against Jews among old-line law offices.

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