I’m interested to learn that Ninth Circuit judge William Fletcher is serving on the American Constitution Society panel charged with selecting the recipients of ACS’s 2021 Carliner Award.

When I saw that Ninth Circuit judge William Fletcher had issued a habeas ruling today (in Ford v. Peery) over the partial dissent of Judge Ryan Nelson, I thought uh oh, here we go again.

Judges A. Wallace Tashima and William A. Fletcher, who sit on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, issued an injunction that effectively bars the state from enforcing provisions of the ...