Posted on 05/07/2020 10:47:00 AM PDT by knighthawk
Authoring a unanimous Supreme Court opinion, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg tore into the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals for "drastically" straying from judicial norms when hearing a case involving a California immigration consultant.
After Evelyn Sineneng-Smith had been convicted of violating a federal law related to encouraging illegal immigration, the Ninth Circuit reversed the decision, not based on arguments presented by Sineneng-Smith, but by third parties the court brought in to submit arguments that the panel of judges themselves had suggested.
"[T]he appeals panel departed so drastically from the principle of party presentation as to constitute an abuse of discretion," Ginsburg wrote, later stating that "a court is not hidebound by the precise arguments of counsel, but the Ninth Circuit’s radical transformation of this case goes well beyond the pale."
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the Ninth Circuit reversed the decision, not based on arguments presented by Sineneng-Smith, but by third parties the court brought in to submit arguments that the panel of judges themselves had suggested.
It’s always the ninth circuit!!!
That’s not weird that he would, that is expected. But it is weird that all 9 were in agreement, and that I agree they all ruled correctly. 8>).
It was a unanimous decision
She must be so sick that she is beginning to worry about eternity.
She didn’t write anything. There’s no way. Clerks had to do most of the work. She could only do a thumb up or down.
I see what you did there.
She’s not dead yet ?
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