Perspective
Jul. 26, 2016
Is dicta binding precedent in the 9th Circuit?
The answer is not as simple as you might think. By Ben Feuer
Ben Feuer
Chairman
Complex Appellate Litigation Group LLP
Appellate Law
Email: ben.feuer@calg.com
Northwestern Univ School of Law
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Judicial opinions are getting longer. Judges and their clerks are smart and have lots to say on lots of topics. In the U.S. Supreme Court, for example, the length of the median majority opinion has more than doubled since the 1950s, to more than 4,000 words. And, of course, at least a bit of that verbiage isn't necessarily important to the case at hand - some of it is, a...
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