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Perspective

Dec. 16, 2014

A curious panel selection procedure in the 9th Circuit

Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has long seemed to enjoy remarkable good fortune in getting assigned to sit on ideologically charged cases. By Edward Whelan


By Edward Whelan


Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has long seemed to enjoy remarkable good fortune in getting assigned to sit on ideologically charged cases. Suspicions that his good fortune hasn't been entirely due to luck were bolstered recently when the 9th Circuit revealed that its clerk's office had had a longstanding but undisclosed practice of assigning expedited cases - which tend to be of special importance - to th...

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