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Judge Kim McLane Wardlaw Makes Her Mark
And then there’s Ninth Circuit judge Kim McLane Wardlaw (appointed to that court by President Clinton). The Supreme Court’s unanimous summary reversal two weeks ago in Kernan v. Cuero marks at ...
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This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—December 20
2017—Ninth Circuit judge Kim McLane Wardlaw endures yet another summary reversal by the Supreme Court. Barely a month earlier (in In re United States), Wardlaw had co-authored a ruling that ...
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Federal Appellate Judges Reverse Kidnapping Case Based on Informant Use
Ninth Circuit Judge Matthew F. Kennelly, who wrote the majority opinion, sided with Judge Kim McLane Wardlaw with Judge Patrick J. Bumatay dissented. Clements prevailed on a claim that prosecutors ...
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Ninth Circuit Divides Over Damages Action for Miranda Violation
County of Los Angeles. In that panel decision, Judge Kim McLane Wardlaw, joined by Judge Mary Murguia and Judge Eric Miller, ruled that when prosecutors have used an un-Mirandized statement to ...
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This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—June 30
2016—Perhaps Ninth Circuit judge Kim McLane Wardlaw is competing for a Lifetime Summary Reversal Award. As Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain aptly sums it up in dissent, the panel opinion by Wardlaw ...
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This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—November 6
2017—In a unanimous ruling in Kernan v. Cuero, the Supreme Court summarily reverses a ruling by Ninth Circuit judge Kim McLane Wardlaw that granted habeas relief to a state prisoner. Employing ...