Improving the Ninth Circuit
Judge Milan D. Smith, Jr. spoke at Harvard Law School and noted that “change is in the air” in the Ninth Circuit.
The Supreme Court accepted only ten cases from the Circuit for the 2007-08 term, almost half as many as in past years.
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Smith also pointed to recent en banc decisions on the Circuit which have reversed controversial and “out of the mainstream” panel opinions, some of which may not have been re-heard in previous years.
