Appellate Practice,
U.S. Supreme Court
Feb. 25, 2019
Selling secrets: The disturbing tale of Supreme Court clerk Ashton Embry
What Justice Joseph McKenna didn’t know when he accepted Embry’s resignation was the lede in the morning’s New York papers: Someone had leaked the results of a pending Supreme Court decision.
Ben Feuer
Chairman
California Appellate Law Group LLP
Appellate Law
96 Jessie St
San Francisco , CA 94105
Phone: (415) 649-6700
Email: ben@calapplaw.com
Northwestern Univ School of Law
Ben handles civil and business appeals in the 9th Circuit and California Courts of Appeal. He is a former 9th Circuit law clerk and co-chair of the Appellate Section of the Bar Association of San Francisco. the Daily Journal named Ben as one of the Top 40 Under 40 lawyers in California for 2018.
APPELLATE ZEALOTS
Secrecy in the judicial decision-making process is essential to court functioning. It preserves the courts' ability to debate, experiment and collaborate among jurists and their staff, while ensuring litigants and the public learn of rulings simultaneously.
Given the sheer number of security scandals that have engulfed America's political and business classes in th...
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