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Re: Panel names released for Bernstein hrg on 12/8

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School )
Tue Dec 2 14:02:14 1997

Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 09:22:38 -0500 (EST)
From: "Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law" <froomkin@law.miami.edu>
To: Greg Broiles <gbroiles@netbox.com>
cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net, cryptography@c2.net,
        fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19971201163747.03d5b7a0@208.139.48.24>


Fletcher and Nelson are two of the smartest, and on the whole more
moderate-liberal, judges on the 9th circuit.  This is a great panel for
Bernstein.

On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Greg Broiles wrote:

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> I just spoke with someone in the clerk's office at the Ninth Circuit - th=
e
> composition of the panel of judges for next Monday's hearing in the
> Bernstein case has been released. The judges are Bright, Fletcher, and
> (Thomas) Nelson. I haven't been able to find information about Judge
> Bright, but found pages of (meager) ratings/discussion about Fletcher and
> Nelson at:
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> <http://www.appellate-counsellor.com/profiles/fletchb.htm>
> and
> <http://www.appellate-counsellor.com/profiles/nelsontg.htm>
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> I think that Judge Bright may be Myron H. Bright, a senior justice on the
> 8th Circuit, who sometimes sits on 9th circuit cases by designation.
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> --
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