Archive for the ‘Miscellany’ Category
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The Harvard Law Review has this article on the recent 9th Circuit en banc decision in Odom v. Microsoft Corp.
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.
The En Banc Blog
This blog will cover the en banc decisions of the federal appellate courts, including votes regarding a petition for rehearing en banc, oral argument summaries, and notable circumstances surrounding the en banc decisions.
