Bloomberg Law
Aug. 5, 2016, 8:49 PM UTC

Judge Kozinski Refuses Excessive Brief

Gabe Friedman
Freelancer

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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