Roopali H. Desai, a partner at Coppersmith Brockelman PLC in Phoenix, appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee alongside U.S. Magistrate Judge Doris L. Pryor, who is nominated to the Seventh Circuit and is President Joe Biden's first circuit court pick to receive backing from two Republican home-state senators.
Desai, who has done extensive work in election law for political campaigns and committees, including the state Democratic Party and some Democratic congressional candidates, pledged to keep her advocacy work separate from her work on the bench if confirmed.
The DJ's story is GOP grills 9th Circuit nominee on election cases
Desai is the sixth Biden nominee to the 9th Circuit. Four of the president’s nominees have been confirmed, while U.S. District Judge Salvador Mendoza Jr. of the Eastern District of Washington’s nomination to the appellate court is pending following committee approval last month.
The 9th Circuit is divided between 16 judges appointed by Democratic presidents and 13 chosen by Republicans. The confirmation of Mendoza and Desai would not change the partisan breakdown.More interested in 9th Cir. caselaw? There's an appealability opinion from yesterday here:
We have appellate jurisdiction because, looking at the record as a whole, “the district court intended its order to end the case.” Knevelbaard Dairies v. Kraft Foods, Inc., 232 F.3d 979, 983 (9th Cir. 2000). Despite acknowledging that amendment of the complaint might not be futile, the district court did not grant leave to amend. That omission, combined with the district court clerk’s entry of judgment on the same day, demonstrates that the dismissal order was final and appealable.
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