[EL] Judge Real

Sun May 1 20:23:43 PDT 2016

I'll make no comment about any campaign finance issue but Judge Real is in fact a nut. When I was a lawyer at DOJ in 1990, he fought a war over a local rule that was favored by over 75 other judges and refused to be represented by the DOJ in a frivolous challenge to that local rule causing all kinds of strife and showing great disrespect to his colleagues who unanimously wanted to support and defend the rule (which we did).

And that's not close to the worst things he has done.

Best,

Eric

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On May 1, 2016, at 11:17 PM, Smith, Brad <BSmith at law.capital.edu<mailto:BSmith at law.capital.edu>> wrote:

One growing trend we see is that any judge who decides a  campaign finance contrary to the wishes of the regulatory lobby will be subjected to hit jobs from that same "ethics" lobby, focused not on the merits of the decision, but framed as an attack on the personal ethics and attributes of the judge.

Disgraceful.

(P.S. To be clear, this is not targeted at Rick for including these pieces in his daily roundups, but at the people launching the hit jobs.)

Bradley A. Smith

Josiah H. Blackmore II/Shirley M. Nault

   Professor of Law

Capital University Law School

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The 9th Circuit opinion shows that age has not mellowed Judge Real, who was born in 1924 and appointed to the bench in 1966 by President Lyndon Johnson. For much of his long career, the judge has been dogged by controversy<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.abajournal.com%2fmagazine%2farticle%2freal_trouble&data=01%7c01%7cesegall%40gsu.edu%7c01dc83ab62e34b5c2fd708d372384d5d%7c515ad73d8d5e4169895c9789dc742a70%7c0&sdata=w%2bc%2fJJSHIGeRSK7YGUHeP743X%2fc6L1Nka%2bm1019FfpU%3d> and overruled by the 9th Circuit. As the Los Angeles Times reported in 2009<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2farticles.latimes.com%2f2009%2faug%2f16%2flocal%2fme-judge-real16%2f2&data=01%7c01%7cesegall%40gsu.edu%7c01dc83ab62e34b5c2fd708d372384d5d%7c515ad73d8d5e4169895c9789dc742a70%7c0&sdata=Ku8FPjy694W3DLdyA6RgLEAvKFvyYvAoLAvuhEIPtj4%3d>, Judge Real's reversal rate has been as high as 10 times the average for federal judges. The Times found the appeals court removed Real<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2farticles.latimes.com%2f2009%2fnov%2f14%2flocal%2fme-real14&data=01%7c01%7cesegall%40gsu.edu%7c01dc83ab62e34b5c2fd708d372384d5d%7c515ad73d8d5e4169895c9789dc742a70%7c0&sdata=Uebubj6TRRCv8ddP7MD%2fxz4smrqUfpktNI1TtkD8oYM%3d> from presiding over remanded cases at least 11 times.

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