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Harvard Law alumnus and Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain '63 spoke to 40 students on Thursday, March 16 at a Federalist Society sponsored event. The topic of his speech, "Ten Reasons Why the Ninth Circuit Should be Split," touched on a number of issues affecting the circuit with the largest case load, number of judges, and territory.
The impetus for this speech came after his article on the topic, published in Engage last October, elicited a response in opposition by fellow Ninth Circuit Judges Mary M. Schroeder and Stephen Reinhardt. Judge O'Scannlain was originally opposed to splitting the circuit until the 1990's, believing that the supporters were motivated by political opportunism aimed at curbing the political tilt of the court. However, he now sides with the findings of two Congressionally appointed commissions recommending appellate reconfiguration.
The Ninth Circuit has a total of 51 judgeships, making it two and a half times as large as the average circuit court, and it receives over 23% of the total appeals filed across the nation. O'Scannlain also criticized the inefficiency of having a court whose jurisdiction ranges over nearly 40 percent of the total land mass of the United States. To deal with the massive caseload, the Ninth Circuit has instituted a limited en banc procedure, allowing a minority of judges to publish conflicting opinions under the banner of the entire court.
After addressing his ten reasons, Judge O'Scannlain proposed accepting the most active legislation that came at the end of last year's budget reconciliation. HR 4093 would make a new Twelfth Circuit out of Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, Oregon, Nevada, Montana, and Washington, keeping California, Hawaii, Guam, and the Northern Marianas as the Ninth Circuit.
In response to a question from the audience, O'Scannlain also addressed where the balance would lie between continuing to split circuits, as has been done a number of times since 1789, and having too many dueling appellate courts. He suggested limiting the number to somewhere around 15 and limiting case growth by allowing discretionary review and removing certain administrative cases to a separate, central court system.
O'Scannlain ended his speech by adding that he believed "a restructuring is inevitable," and he hoped that those in opposition would "participate in planning the circuit's future in the hope of finding the most effective means of implementing a split."
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from the Iranians wanting him to return their assets to other coup attempts to 6 months before the Shah son pretended he was bankrupt in a public trial, to my wifes relative coming to our house talking about the coup and we did not know they were in Washington DC, to the Iran Contra hearings trial that was going to start Feb 20 th, 1989 to the tipping of the coup to the Iranian govt, ,to something in writing I can prove the coup to the Salamon Rushtie Feb 14th insult to islam to get the people on the street to avoid the coup to the Iranian govt announcement of a coup by 'dissent mullahs' announced at the time to the negiotations between the Bush people involved pretending they were going to make a deal to the 'nice' stories plant in US newspapers at the time (including the Post) as part of the negotation to the fact the bomb had to placed out of London based on the flight path as I worked at USAir at the time creating the flight plans for the 'planes to fly themselves' to overt CIA agents around me at the time to the fact that Bollier, the guy who made the timer for the bomb's wide was IRANIAN and the Libyans told me and said they were not allowed to say... there were 3 witness only.. the main one was trashed.. Bollier and a guy whom said he soldm the Libyan a suitcase in Malta.. hence, one the suitcase guy would be left.. the Libyans did not put up a defence in exchange for evidence to trash the main witness on the stand to what an overt CIA agent told me in the US 4 years later.. etc. etc and the details of several coups to the new World bank (my wie's cousin involved who used to work at the work bank)and US loans starting May 1990 to Iran to the fact that PANAm was shut down 18 months later as they thought it would be targeted again because of the Shah connection (the US airlines go in and out of bankruptcy all the time - this was the one of the first US airlines - an ICON) etc
I also know where the Iranian govt officials have money in the US, Canada and UK; the back door dealing etccall me for details.. Barry Lanza 00 44 1786831554.. My father-in-law was a convicted spy given amnesty