The Ninth Circuit Conference is taking place this week in Portland. The DJ has
Buckle up for bumpy ride, 9th Circuit meeting is told -- Lisa S. Blatt, chair of Williams & Connolly LLP’s Supreme Court and Appellate Practice, told the annual meeting of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that recent Supreme Court decisions left many unanswered questions.
9th Circuit Chief Judge Mary H. Murguia, an appointee of President Barack Obama, welcomed judges to the four-day conference, which is the second one held since the COVID-19 pandemic forced its cancellation in 2020 and 2021. Turnout appeared larger than last year’s conference in Big Sky, Montana. “It really feels like we’re back this year,” Murguia said in her opening remarks.
Monday’s session included a debate on originalism, the increasingly popular legal theory to interpret the nation’s founding documents as they believe it was intended to be understood at the time.
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