DJ roundup

Today's DJ offers Choosing DIY When You Need to Appeal, the Appellate Zealots column this month by Charles Kagay, about Diaz v. Professional Community Management, which has gotten much attention for a variety of issues. This column focuses on how the appellant cleverly attempted to manufacture appealability. Or maybe not so cleverly, given the sanctions imposed.

Also of note is the article Harris Delays Nominees, Some Say, reporting that the President has submitted multiple lists of candidates for federal court positions to senators Feinstein and Harris, but that Harris may be "intentionally blocking nominations at the earliest stages." The article reports that about 20 candidates have been interviewed for a 9th Circuit seat and several district court positions.

And Justice Elwood Lui, who as "court-appointed financial monitor" files quarterly reports about the State Bar, is noted in State Bar Struggling to Fill Positions in Attorney Discipline Unit. "Roughly 12 percent of the positions in the bar’s Office of Chief Trial Counsel were vacant as of earlier this month ..."

See also at Law.com D.C. Circuit's Harry Edwards Finds Collegiality Trumps 'Irascible Personalities,': Federal appeals judgse are not all buddies--"that's not the point," Judge Harry Edwards of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit says. Collegiality is the norm. Edwards speaks with the NLJ about a recent dive into appeals court stats, and a survey he conducted among federal circuit judges.