9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (Portland)
By John Roemer
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Circuit Judge Diarmuid Fionntain O'Scannlain is a proud conservative on the left-leaning 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. He's in an increasingly lonely spot, as the political balance of the court shifts toward judges appointed by Democratic presidents.
O'Scannlain hews to tradition. When he travels from his seat in Portland, Ore., where President Reagan placed him in 1986, to San Francisco for oral argum... (continued)