Some Reading Recommendations from A3G

By Article III Groupie

Your above-signed blogress is going to be away from the web for two weeks, on a much-needed vacation. But fear not, lovers of judicial news and gossip; A3G leaves you in the capable (and well-manicured) hands of Clerquette.

Before she departs, A3G would like to leave you with a few reading recommendations. Some of these items are a bit old, so you may have already read them; but if you haven't, they're well worth your time. In no particular order:

1. Justice Stevens Renders an Opinion on Who Wrote Shakespeare's Plays [Wall Street Journal]

Maybe Justice Stevens should retire and pursue a second career as a literary scholar?

Of course, the justices are an opinionated bunch. In addition to JPS, Justices Scalia, Kennedy, Breyer and Ginsburg offered thoughts on the question of who wrote Shakespeare's plays.

2. Conservatives gaining sway on a liberal bastion [Los Angeles Times]

An interesting article about the evolution of the Ninth Circuit. Best quote (offered to put the Ninth Circuit's reversal rate in context):

"They typically don't take your case to say, 'You did a great job!' " Molly C. Dwyer, clerk of the court [for the Ninth Circuit], said of the high court's 75% reversal rate across the 13 circuits.

3. Three key players on the 9th Circuit [Los Angeles Times]

A sidebar to the L.A. Times article mentioned above, focusing on three judges who are no strangers to these pages: Chief Judge Alex Kozinski; Judge Stephen Reinhardt; and Judge Diarmuid O'Scannlain.

Okay, A3G's flight is boarding, and sprinting in Manolos is never fun. Toodles!

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