Holiday today

Today is a "Columbus Day" (or, depending on your location, a holiday of some sort, e.g., Indigenous Peoples Day in L.A.) so State and Federal courts are closed for the holiday.
But this doesn't mean that the federal courts' computers aren't functioning!
For example, this morning at 4:05 a.m. the 9th Circuit's computer system dutifully posted on the Oral Argument Dates & Location page the identities of panels hearing cases next week. So don't think that just because it's a federal holiday that the courts are entirely shut down -- automated processes continue automatically!

No holidays for robots.

As for enjoying today's holiday, how about reading Beds' latest column The Steel Cage Mud Run, exposing the sartorial traditions of 4/3 and why oral argument is tough on the judges (even when the panel loos like "seagulls on a pier").


For dispatches from the distaff side of appellate practice, see Morning Coats and First Arguments: Female SCOTUS Lawyers on Breaking Barriers as well as Appellate Honchos Duke It Out in 'Blurred Lines' Copyright Case.