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Access online the document by means of which "Porn Prosecutors Seek Recusal of Entire 9th Circuit"

Access online the document by means of which "Porn Prosecutors Seek Recusal of Entire 9th Circuit": In the November 7, 2008 issue of The Daily Journal of California, John Roemer had an article that begins, "Federal prosecutors have written to all 50 judges on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, asking them to consider recusing themselves from hearing accused pornographer Ira Isaacs' appeal. The rare move is further fallout from the disclosure in June that Chief Judge Alex Kozinski's Web site contained sexually explicit images."

When I had this post noting the existence of that article on November 7, 2008, I wrote: "If I can obtain electronic copies of the parties' Ninth Circuit filings on the recusal issue, I will post them online."

Although counsel for the parties in the United States v. Isaacs appeal have been particularly unhelpful in supplying me with these documents, I have managed to obtain two of the three relevant documents via other means.

I have today posted online both the federal government's "Notice of Potential Need for Circuit-Wide Recusal" and the defendant's "Opposition to Circuit Wide Recusal Notice." The federal government also filed a reply to the defendant's opposition, but I haven't yet succeeded in obtaining a copy of that pleading. If and when I do obtain that pleading, I will promptly post it online here at "How Appealing."

As of now, the Ninth Circuit's electronic docket in the Isaacs appeal shows no sign of any rulings on the federal government's recusal notice.

Full post as published by How Appealing on November 17, 2008 (boomark / email).