Summary
It may be the oddest legal situation seen in California in a generation. A federal district judge makes a decision that could adversely affect tens of millions of people and businesses, but no one files an appeal.
This is truly man bites dog, the very definition of news, but hardly anyone appears to have noticed. For in modern California, almost every significant court ruling gets appealed. When Charles Keating is convicted of defrauding thousands of his savings and loan customers in a Ponzi-like scheme and the evidence against him is overwhelming, he appeals and his state conviction is overturned on a technicality. When a court rules the Pledge of Allegiance is perfectly legal, a parent who doesn't like it appeals and a higher court upholds the complaint. The examples are almost endless.See the full content of this document
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Thomas Elias:Smelt Ruling Should Be Appealed
It's almost as if the operative rule in legal circles were simply that you never run out of appeals until you run out of money.
But when Senior U.S. District Court Judge Oliver Wanger of...See the full content of this document
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