A year of confirmations & creative opinions

Law360 has The 7 Most Divisive Judicial Confirmations Of 2019 (which includes Lawrence VanDyke to the Ninth Circuit, whose "confirmation hearing may have been the most dramatic of 2019.").

In a banner year for judicial confirmations, senators in 2019 signed off on 20 circuit judges and 80 district judges as President Donald Trump clinched his 185th appointment — but in reaching that milestone, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell faced a number of heated battles along the way.

[And see How Trump is filling the liberal 9th Circuit with conservatives]

Law360 also offers Poetic Justice: How Judges Got Creative In 2019 (which includes noting Ninth Circuit Judge Owens Game of Thrones reference).

And see Supreme Court Attorneys Give Back:

In 2019, California Supreme Court and First Appellate District attorneys supported asylum cases for unaccompanied refugee children; volunteered at clinics for the formerly incarcerated; and served as mock trial judges for student competitions.

And Xmas comes early for four new superior court judges just appointed here.

Here's an interesting unpub'd decision with an unusual heading in the facts:
"A. Something Happens on March 17, 2016."
Can't disagree with that!