[SmithL]

Marsha J. Pechman


Another Ninth Circuit district court vacancy has been filled with the confirmation of King County, Washington, Superior Court Judge Marsha Pechman to the bench on September 8, 1999. She will fill the position to be vacated by Judge William Dwyer, who is retiring as United States district judge for the Western District of Washington.

Senators Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Slade Gorton (R-Wash.) in January picked Pechman with the help of a 12-member panel and sent her name to the White House for an FBI check. President Clinton nominated Judge Pechman on March 24.

Judge Pechman, 48, of Seattle, has served on the King County bench since 1988. Prior to that, she worked as a deputy prosecutor with the King County Prosecutor’s office, as an associate and partner with Levinson, Friedman, Vhugen, Duggan, Bland and Horwitz, and as a law professor at the University of Puget Sound and the University of Washington.

Judge Pechman earned her undergraduate degree from Cornell University in 1973 and her law degree from Boston University in 1976.

[Torie]

Environmental groups sued over the decision, arguing that it was arbitrary and that the government had not evaluated what the impact would be on protected species such as the great gray owl.

Can't have that. Owls are wise, and we needs as many of them as possible. Kudos to the judge.

[JasonC]

It is long past time to stop obeying activist judges and to instead just laugh at them, issue your own executive branch fatwas, and tell them to get their publicists to enforce their lawless commands.

[aliquando]

Tree in forest falls on judge. Nobody hears it or misses judge. NOW THATS A HEADLINE I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR!!!

[B Knotts]

Another liberal judge abusing her position. Big surprise.

[enviros_kill]

[forester]

In her decision Monday, she reinstated the survey-and-manage rule, and made clear that no timber sales would proceed unless they met that standard.

The cost of survey and manage exceeds the value of the trees. In addition, it is worded such that one could never survey enough to survive a legal challenge. The notion that one can obtain a job that required one to not produce anything, (ie survey for toadstools, lichen, and rodents) is destroying the manufacturing base of this country.

[schu]

About half of those sales included old-growth logging

If this is true, and I am dubious, then I would NOT support logging these acres. Nonetheless, the judge cannot just make rulings like this. There is no reason to log old growth, even if the timber companies want to. 2nd and 3rd growth is fine.

schu

[AZ_Cowboy]

Wildfires? What wildfires?

Our friends the watermelons ride again, folks.

[JudgemAll]

I don't understand. If the prez says one thing and a judge another, why would the sale still be illegal?

Judges do not have final authority, as far as I know. This is ridiculous.

[Dustbunny]

The judge is obviously part of the enviro wacko crowd.

[crz]

Another example of why the forest products industry is moving out of this country and why the Russians and others are licking their chops and sending volumes of lumber to this country.

6 logging companys I know of around here have gone to Russia. They dont have to put up with the crap.

[MonroeDNA]

Take her out!