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Judging While Female

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On April 2, 2012
I was lucky enough to chair a panel at WPSA where Rebecca Gill presented the latest iteration of her research into how the judicial merit evaluations done under ABA guidelines actually work in practice, and the results are as depressing as you would expect: Following...
Anderson makes a great point with respect to Michael Daly Hawkins, the 9CA judge who implicitly argued that if Vaughn Walker was planning to get married it would be reasonable to demand his recusal: How on earth did Judge Hawkins get on the federal appellate...

Jim Crow Returns To 11CA

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On September 10, 2010
Ah, the American judicial system.   An employer engages in racial discrimination sufficiently egregious that an Alabama jury find it illegal.     The 11th Circuit throws out the verdict.    Its reasoning is so specious that a unanimous Supreme Court rejects it.  Another jury finds the discrimination illegal.   ...
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