[Bitter Bierce]

it would be virtually impossible for the Sixth Circuit federal court to "reverse" the U.S. district courts' rulings. A stay might be somehow remotely possible, but I can't see it at this late hour.

I'm an appellate lawyer, and I can see it. know that the federal appellate courts are preparing for the worst, and those two district court rulings were so clearly erroneous and time-sensitive that an expedited ruling was certainly not out of the question.

[Petronski]

I misread this...I of course agree and defer, counselor. The appellate court, as I understand it, DID reverse the demo patsy on the district court (who said NO observers).

[King of Florida]

I'm an appellate lawyer, and I can see it. know that the federal appellate courts are preparing for the worst, and those two district court rulings were so clearly erroneous and time-sensitive that an expedited ruling was certainly not out of the question.

I'm an appellate attorney, too. I'm not sure as you, though. It's convenient enough to write Dlott's ruling off as that of a wacked-out Clintonista appointee, but Adams' ruling -- he's a Bush appointee -- is another story altogether.

While it's true that given the time constraints, a single judge on the Sixth Circuit could have granted a stay under Fed. R. App. P. 8, again, we're talking about two cases here. Plus I still think we would have heard about it somewhere else other than the little erroneous Fox blurb.