[EL] Judge Real
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Mon May 2 05:25:32 PDT 2016
Eric, I wonder what the rule was about. Just because a bunch of judges
want it does not make it ipso facto desirable.
And I wonder also whether this judge would have suffered this attack if he
had ruled the other way. Jim Bopp
In a message dated 5/1/2016 11:24:46 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
esegall at gsu.edu writes:
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
Sent from my iPhone
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
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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_
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fd708d372384d5d|515ad73d8d5e4169895c9789dc742a70|0&sdata=w+c/JJSHIGeRSK7YGUH
eP743X/c6L1Nka+m1019FfpU=) and overruled by the 9th Circuit. As the Los
Angeles Times _reported in 2009_
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01|01|esegall at gsu.edu|01dc83ab62e34b5c2fd708d372384d5d|515ad73d8d5e4169895c9
789dc742a70|0&sdata=Ku8FPjy694W3DLdyA6RgLEAvKFvyYvAoLAvuhEIPtj4=) , 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_
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/me-real14&data=01|01|esegall at gsu.edu|01dc83ab62e34b5c2fd708d372384d5d|515ad
73d8d5e4169895c9789dc742a70|0&sdata=Uebubj6TRRCv8ddP7MD/xz4smrqUfpktNI1TtkD8
oYM=) from presiding over remanded cases at least 11 times.
Real was called to testify at a 2006 House Judiciary Committee _hearing_
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committees/judiciary/hju29969.000/hju29969_0f.htm&data=01|01|esegall at gsu.edu
|01dc83ab62e34b5c2fd708d372384d5d|515ad73d8d5e4169895c9789dc742a70|0&sdata=X
hdySqAgmTMJADmmRA1hvKwZZFLEavaH4Cf2ASH90Cw=) exploring his alleged
misconduct in the handling of a bankruptcy case and related California unlawful
detainer action. The House dropped the matter but he was later publicly
reprimanded by the 9th Circuit.
Since 2006, according to _Westlaw statistics_
(https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http://blogs.reuters.com/alison-frankel/files/2016/04
/Judicial-Reversal-Report-for-Real-Hon-Manuel-L.pdf&data=01|01|esegall at gsu.e
du|01dc83ab62e34b5c2fd708d372384d5d|515ad73d8d5e4169895c9789dc742a70|0&sdata
=5zwdegqk4C0VElpQdK9f5oSt8P4g2YjFf8o1fM2fTGk=) on Judge Real’s record at
the 9th Circuit, he has been reversed 87 times. The judge has been affirmed
233 times. His reversal rate in the last 10 years – not counting his 47
partial reversals – is nearly 17 percent. (I calculated the rate by dividing
the number of complete reversals by the sum of complete reversals plus
complete affirmances.) In 2015, according to the Westlaw report, the judge was
reversed 12 times and affirmed 20, an astonishing 37.5 percent reversal
rate. Before Wednesday’s decision in the Wijegunaratne case, Judge Real had
been reversed in two other cases in 2016, compared to seven affirmances.
This is the judge that _recently decided _
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data=ZrL1Xj7KIyjKXgrBBKdxV8UKxbN2s7zplU7Z4kHDj0k=) against the state of
California and in favor of the Koch Brothers-linked Americans for Propserity
on disclosure issues, soon to face a 9th Circuit appeal.
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