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"Ninth Circuit, on 2-1 Vote with Strong Kozinksi Dissent, Holds that Arizona Requirement of Proof of Citizenship to Register to Vote is Preempted by the National Voter Registration Act"

"Ninth Circuit, on 2-1 Vote with Strong Kozinksi Dissent, Holds that Arizona Requirement of Proof of Citizenship to Register to Vote is Preempted by the National Voter Registration Act": Law professor Rick Hasen has this post at his "Election Law Blog" about a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued today.

Circuit Judge Sandra S. Ikuta wrote the majority opinion, in which retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor -- sitting by designation -- joined. It is interesting to note that, after law school, Ikuta first clerked for Judge Kozinski on the Ninth Circuit before going on to clerk for Justice O'Connor at the U.S. Supreme Court.

I know that it is fairly common for a federal appellate judge to serve on a three-judge panel with a judge for whom he or she had clerked following law school. I cannot help but wonder, however, whether any federal appellate judge had previously served as law clerk to both of the other two judges serving on a particular three-judge federal appellate court panel.

Full post as published by How Appealing on October 26, 2010 (boomark / email).