Judges and Judiciary,
Appellate Practice
Aug. 5, 2015
When judges go it alone
How can individual appellate judges have the ability to issue controversial orders without the concurrence of at least one other appellate judge?
Anna-Rose Mathieson
California Appellate Law Group LLP
96 Jessie St
San Francisco , CA 94105
Phone: (415) 649-6700
Fax: (415) 649-6700
Email: annarose@calapplaw.com
Univ of Michigan Law Sch; Ann Arbor MI
Anna-Rose clerked for Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court, and was named one of the 20 most prolific Supreme Court amicus filers in 2018.
Ben Feuer
Chairman
Complex Appellate Litigation Group LLP
Appellate Law
Email: ben.feuer@calg.com
Northwestern Univ School of Law
In 2009, two remarkable orders issued from two remarkable judges on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Judges Stephen Reinhardt and Alex Kozinski, each acting individually in their capacity as administrative judge for employment disputes involving the courts, held the then-in-force Defense of Marriage Act did not permit the federal government to deny health insurance benefits to the same-sex spouses of Karen Golinski, a 9th Circuit staff attor...
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