Aimee A. Feinberg

Authored People v. Riddle, affirming termination of mental-health diversion when required residential treatment was unavailable and rejecting court-ordered public funding for private treatment.

October 21, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: law.justia.com · researched September 13, 2026

Joined People v. Gray, holding locked exterior utility-truck compartments counted as vehicle interiors for burglary and affirming the convictions.

March 12, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: law.justia.com · researched September 13, 2026

Joined People v. Zwerenz, affirming recommitment of an offender with a mental health disorder based on individualized evidence of substantial public danger.

December 20, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: law.justia.com · researched September 13, 2026

Dissented in People v. Robinson, arguing grand-jury testimony was inadmissible hearsay in a murder-resentencing hearing and lacked adversarial safeguards.

December 9, 2024Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: law.justia.com · researched September 13, 2026

Joined Dessins v. City of Sacramento, holding the city could vote its fee-paying properties in a Proposition 218 storm-drainage-fee election.

July 9, 2025Supports Election Integrity

Source: law.justia.com · researched September 13, 2026

Joined People v. $379,744 U.S. Currency, reversing a forfeiture judgment as to one claimant because the jury's ownership and innocence findings conflicted with awarding him nothing.

July 10, 2026Supports Civil Rights

Source: law.justia.com · researched September 13, 2026

Joined Phan v. Knight Sacramento, affirming refusal to enforce employment arbitration agreements whose overbreadth and lack of mutuality made them unconscionable.

July 2, 2026Supports Civil Rights

Source: law.justia.com · researched September 13, 2026

Authored People v. Riddle, affirming termination of mental-health diversion when required residential treatment was unavailable and rejecting court-ordered public funding for private treatment.

October 21, 2025Opposes Civil Rights

Source: law.justia.com · researched September 13, 2026

Dissented in People v. Robinson, arguing grand-jury testimony was inadmissible hearsay in a murder-resentencing hearing and lacked adversarial safeguards.

December 9, 2024Supports Civil Rights

Source: law.justia.com · researched September 13, 2026

Joined In re J.M., ordering a new juvenile transfer hearing under amended rehabilitation standards and resentencing if the case remained in adult court.

July 12, 2024Supports Civil Rights

Source: law.justia.com · researched September 13, 2026

Represented California in The GEO Group v. Newsom, defending the state's ban on private immigration detention contracts.

September 26, 2022Supports Civil Rights

Source: law.justia.com · researched September 13, 2026

Represented the Attorney General in Mathews v. Becerra, where the California Supreme Court upheld mandated reporting of suspected child pornography.

August 29, 2019Supports Civil Rights

Source: law.justia.com · researched September 13, 2026

Argued for California in United States v. California, defending state limits on cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.

April 18, 2019Supports Civil Rights

Source: openjurist.org · researched September 13, 2026

Was sworn in as an associate justice of the Third District Court of Appeal.

January 30, 2024

Source: appellate.courts.ca.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Was nominated to serve as an associate justice of the Third District Court of Appeal.

December 7, 2023

Source: gov.ca.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Began serving as a California Deputy Solicitor General, representing state agencies and officials in complex appeals.

January 1, 2014

Source: appellate.courts.ca.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Joined People v. $379,744 U.S. Currency, reversing a forfeiture judgment as to one claimant because the jury's ownership and innocence findings conflicted with awarding him nothing.

July 10, 2026Favorable on Legal Competence

Source: law.justia.com · researched September 13, 2026

Joined Phan v. Knight Sacramento, affirming refusal to enforce employment arbitration agreements whose overbreadth and lack of mutuality made them unconscionable.

July 2, 2026Favorable on Legal Competence

Source: law.justia.com · researched September 13, 2026

Authored People v. Riddle, affirming termination of mental-health diversion when required residential treatment was unavailable and rejecting court-ordered public funding for private treatment.

October 21, 2025Favorable on Legal Competence

Source: law.justia.com · researched September 13, 2026

Authored Fennessy v. Altoonian, affirming judgment against a seller's indemnity and related claims arising from an undisclosed death at residential property.

September 19, 2025Favorable on Legal Competence

Source: law.justia.com · researched September 13, 2026

Joined Dessins v. City of Sacramento, holding the city could vote its fee-paying properties in a Proposition 218 storm-drainage-fee election.

July 9, 2025Favorable on Legal Competence

Source: law.justia.com · researched September 13, 2026

Authored Johnson v. Department of Transportation, upholding disqualification of counsel and experts who continued using privileged material despite a protective order.

March 17, 2025Favorable on Legal Competence

Source: law.justia.com · researched September 13, 2026

Joined People v. Gray, holding locked exterior utility-truck compartments counted as vehicle interiors for burglary and affirming the convictions.

March 12, 2025Favorable on Legal Competence

Source: law.justia.com · researched September 13, 2026

Joined People v. Zwerenz, affirming recommitment of an offender with a mental health disorder based on individualized evidence of substantial public danger.

December 20, 2024Favorable on Legal Competence

Source: law.justia.com · researched September 13, 2026

Dissented in People v. Robinson, arguing grand-jury testimony was inadmissible hearsay in a murder-resentencing hearing and lacked adversarial safeguards.

December 9, 2024Favorable on Legal Competence

Source: law.justia.com · researched September 13, 2026

Joined In re J.M., ordering a new juvenile transfer hearing under amended rehabilitation standards and resentencing if the case remained in adult court.

July 12, 2024Favorable on Legal Competence

Source: law.justia.com · researched September 13, 2026

Joined Smith v. Myers, affirming validation of a trust amendment and holding a one-year limitations statute did not govern claims based on the document itself.

July 10, 2024Favorable on Legal Competence

Source: law.justia.com · researched September 13, 2026

Was sworn in as an associate justice of the Third District Court of Appeal.

January 30, 2024Favorable on Legal Competence

Source: appellate.courts.ca.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Was nominated to serve as an associate justice of the Third District Court of Appeal.

December 7, 2023Favorable on Legal Competence

Source: gov.ca.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Returned to Munger, Tolles & Olson as of counsel after nine years in the California Department of Justice.

January 1, 2023Favorable on Legal Competence

Source: gov.ca.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Represented California in The GEO Group v. Newsom, defending the state's ban on private immigration detention contracts.

September 26, 2022Favorable on Legal Competence

Source: law.justia.com · researched September 13, 2026

Represented the Attorney General in Mathews v. Becerra, where the California Supreme Court upheld mandated reporting of suspected child pornography.

August 29, 2019Favorable on Legal Competence

Source: law.justia.com · researched September 13, 2026

Argued for California in United States v. California, defending state limits on cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.

April 18, 2019Favorable on Legal Competence

Source: openjurist.org · researched September 13, 2026

Represented California in Vergara v. State, where the Court of Appeal reversed a judgment invalidating teacher-tenure statutes.

May 3, 2016Favorable on Legal Competence

Source: law.justia.com · researched September 13, 2026

Began serving as a California Deputy Solicitor General, representing state agencies and officials in complex appeals.

January 1, 2014Favorable on Legal Competence

Source: appellate.courts.ca.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Directed the California Supreme Court Clinic at UC Davis School of Law and represented clients before the state high court.

January 1, 2012Favorable on Legal Competence

Source: appellate.courts.ca.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Taught California Supreme Court practice, appellate advocacy, and legal ethics at UC Davis School of Law.

January 1, 2012Favorable on Legal Competence

Source: appellate.courts.ca.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Practiced appellate and complex litigation at Munger, Tolles & Olson.

January 1, 2005Favorable on Legal Competence

Source: gov.ca.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Clerked for Justice Stephen G. Breyer on the U.S. Supreme Court.

January 1, 2004Favorable on Legal Competence

Source: gov.ca.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Clerked for Judge David S. Tatel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

January 1, 2003Favorable on Legal Competence

Source: gov.ca.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Practiced litigation at Covington & Burling.

January 1, 2002Favorable on Legal Competence

Source: gov.ca.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Authored Johnson v. Department of Transportation, upholding disqualification of counsel and experts who continued using privileged material despite a protective order.

March 17, 2025

Source: law.justia.com · researched September 13, 2026

Taught California Supreme Court practice, appellate advocacy, and legal ethics at UC Davis School of Law.

January 1, 2012

Source: appellate.courts.ca.gov · researched September 13, 2026