With all that’s happening in the world today, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ Judge Alex Kozinski has no time for calculating lawyers who foist their long-winded briefs upon him and other judges without even asking.
Such behavior has become woefully typical, he recently suggested.
“This has become a common and rather lamentable practice: Instead of getting leave to file an oversized brief before the deadline, lawyers wait for the last minute to file chubby briefs and dare us to bounce them,” Kozinski wrote .
[caption id="attachment_24604" align="alignnone” width="511"][Image “Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals arrives at court in ...
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