Bill to remove Nevada, 5 other states from ‘nutty 9th’ Circuit Court may be gaining favor‘NUTTY 9TH’ HAS 29 JUDGESThere’s a price to be paid for that clout, said Walter Olson, Cato Institute senior fellow and founder of the “Overlawyered” blog. The 9th Circuit is the only circuit to hold “en banc” — or full bench — hearings with 11 of its 29 judges. Olson has taken to calling the 9th Circuit “the court that’s not all there.”
“It’s so big the three-judge panels cannot keep track of what they’re all doing.
You’ve got a panel over here that says one thing and a panel over there that says the opposite thing,” Vanderbilt Law School professor Brian Fitzpatrick said.
Flake has argued that the district’s size contributes to a court case gridlock.
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The average wait time for a decision is 15 months,” the senator told radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt. “The one bedrock principle we have in this country is the swift access to justice. If you live in the 9th Circuit, particularly Arizona, you don’t have that.”
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