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Rosemary Barkett’s Retirement 27 Aug 2013 | 12:39 am
Last week (while I was away on vacation), Eleventh Circuit judge Rosemary Barkett announced that she would retire from that court on September 30 in order to become one of nine arbitrators on the Iran...
Justice Ginsburg and 'Judicial Activism' 26 Aug 2013 | 09:41 pm
Justice Ginsburg claimed in an interview with the New York Times published Friday that the Roberts Courts is “one of the most activist courts in history,” as “measured in terms of readiness to overtur...
Re: Justice Ginsburg and “Judicial Activism” 26 Aug 2013 | 09:31 pm
To follow up on Ammon’s excellent post:In the NYT article, Justice Ginsburg is quoted as saying: “if it’s measured in terms of readiness to overturn legislation, this is one of the most activist court...
This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism-August 26 26 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
2009—In what Fourth Amendment expert Orin Kerr describes as the “most free-wheeling, ‘look ma no hands’ legal decision I’ve read in a long time,” a limited en banc panel of the Ninth Circuit, in a maj...
This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism-August 24 24 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
1995—The citizen-suit provision of the Endangered Species Act authorizes “any person” to sue for violations of the ESA. Demonstrating why liberal judicial activists should be an endangered species, Ni...
This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism-August 23 23 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
2006—The New York Times reports that Michigan federal district judge Anna Diggs Taylor, who issued a wild ruling the previous week declaring that the National Security Agency’s Terrorist Surveillance ...
Grenada Is Not Argentina 22 Aug 2013 | 08:17 pm
Some in the financial markets have had mixed reactions to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit’s NML Capital, Ltd. v. Republic of Argentina decision, which required Argentina to treat all ...
Governor Brownback's Stellar Judicial Appointment 21 Aug 2013 | 07:17 am
Kansas governor Sam Brownback has nominated his chief counsel, Caleb Stegall, to fill an opening on the Kansas Court of Appeals. The Kansas City Star reports:Caleb Stegall is the first to be nominated...
This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism-August 19 19 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
2005—A front-page Washington Post article reporting on the release of Reagan-administration documents relating to Supreme Court nominee John Roberts carries the inflammatory headline, “Roberts Resiste...
More on the D.C. Circuit 18 Aug 2013 | 10:21 pm
In addition to Adam White's article noted by Ammon below, I'll shamelessly plug my recent VC post (and a short piece I did for The Environmental Forum) on the court as well.
