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Thursday, June 18, 2009
Courts - Why was it Justice Ginsburg who could decide the Indiana Chrysler appeal?
Tony Mauro of The National Law Journal has an article today headed "Circuit Assignments May Give Most High Court Justices 'Home Court' Advantage" that includes the answer to this question. Some quotes:
The last-minute challenges to the Chrysler Group LLC sale last week focused a rare spotlight on a little-known aspect of the Supreme Court's work: the justices' circuit assignments.A throwback to the days when justices rode the circuits, federal law calls for individual justices to be assigned to the various federal circuits to handle emergency applications. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg received the Chrysler filings because the bankruptcy originated in the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which is assigned to her. * * *
Justice John Paul Stevens handles his beloved 7th Circuit, where he was once a judge, and Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. handles both the D.C. Circuit, where he once sat, and the 4th, where he lives. (The chief justice is traditionally assigned the D.C. and 4th circuits.)
Posted by Marcia Oddi on June 18, 2009 08:22 AM
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