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In 1979, the Ninth Circuit became the first federal judicial circuit to set up a Bankruptcy Appellate Panel as authorized by the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. The Richard H. Chambers U.S. Court of Appeals, Pasadena, California. The cultural and political jurisdiction of the Ninth Circuit is just as varied as the land within its geographical ...
Circuit Judge Andrew L. Brasher: Birmingham, AL: 1981 2020–present — — Trump: 41 Circuit Judge Nancy Abudu: Atlanta, GA: 1974 2023–present — — Biden: 42 Circuit Judge Embry Kidd: Orlando, FL: 1983 2025–present — — Biden: 9 Senior Circuit Judge Gerald Bard Tjoflat: Jacksonville, FL: 1929 1981–2019 [c] 1989–1996 2019 ...
Pages in category "Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit" The following 119 pages are in this category, out of 119 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Wallace served as Chief Judge of the Ninth Circuit from 1991 to 1996. He assumed senior status on April 8, 1996. [ 2 ] As a senior judge, Wallace has a reduced caseload, but he continues to hear cases in the Ninth Circuit, and he sits by designation from time to time as a visiting judge on other federal appellate courts.
In February 2012, Smith authored a dissent to the Ninth Circuit's decision in Perry v. Brown holding California Proposition 8 unconstitutional. He did agree with the majority that the appellants had standing to bring the appeal, and that Judge Vaughn Walker 's decision should not be vacated on allegations of bias.
Sidney Runyan Thomas (born August 14, 1953) is an American lawyer and jurist serving as a senior U.S. circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit since 1996. He served as the Ninth Circuit's chief judge from 2014 to 2021. His chambers are located in Billings, Montana.
In 2006, he was one of the judges on the panel that upheld the imprisonment of journalist Josh Wolf. [5]On February 7, 2017, Clifton along with fellow Ninth Circuit judges William Canby and Michelle Friedland heard oral arguments on a motion from the Trump administration to stay the temporary restraining order in State of Washington v.
William Alan Fletcher (born June 6, 1945) is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. [1] Appointed by President Bill Clinton, Fletcher was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 1998. Fletcher is a Professor (Emeritus) at the UC Berkeley School of Law, where he still teaches federal courts. [2]