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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The case was heard by a three-judge panel — Kim McLane Wardlaw and Ronald M. Gould, both appointed by President Bill Clinton, and Patrick J. Bumatay, appointed by President Donald Trump.

Judge Kim McLane Wardlaw wrote the unanimous 51-page panel opinion in South Bay. The panel in Harvest Rock determined in a brief order that the South Bay ruling, as circuit precedent, bound it to ...

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 ...

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 ...