Thursday, March 29, 2018

En banc vote – on party lines?

Originally published by David Coale.

The Fifth Circuit recently denied en banc rehearing in the high-profile qualified immunity case of Jauch v. Choctaw County, where the panel denied immunity to a sheriff who had been sued over a lengthy period of pretrial detention. From one perspective, a chart of the 9-6 vote (below) shows a vote along “party lines,” with all of the votes for rehearing coming from judges appointed by Republican presidents (including both of President Trump’s recent appointments), and with all active judges appointed by Democratic presidents voting against rehearing. From another perspective, the vote shows that the group of active judges appointed by Republican presidents is hardly a monolithic bloc, as it divided roughly in half on the vote.

Curated by Texas Bar Today. Follow us on Twitter @texasbartoday.



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