Word: circuitous
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...Chief Justice" Jon Newman, who is actually a judge on the Second Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals, delivered the verdict to the crowd of approximately 200, after two members of each team had stated their case...
...vogue for the tennis elite to misbehave, scream, and quit when things don't go their way. But most secondly, in addition to their ravings and histrionics in front of the paying crowd--many of whom actually come to enjoy a good argument--the glamour boys of the international circuit are treading the baseline of player responsibility, impugning the integrity all professional athletes should display...
While federal judges say they are familiar with Ely's theory, most seem to doubt that a judge could consistently apply it to tough cases. Washington D C circuit judge Shelly Wright--who asked Ely to clerk for him more than 15 years ago, only to have Ely accept a similar post with Warren instead--lauds Ely's "outstanding reputation in judicial circles," but notes of Democracy and Distrust. "Like a lot of writing by scholastics it doesn't get close enough to the practicality that judges have to face," He adds, "I know...
...Fifth circuit judge Alyin Robin also lauds the hands-off role Ely posits for the Court, but says Ely's finely wrought theory on the limits of judicial activism could never be perfectly realized. "Sometimes the theory doesn't fit the duty" of the judge, especially in the hard cases that tend to reach the Supreme Court, he says...
Agrees Washington circuit judge Carl McGowan, "When you go on the bench and you're grappling with individual cases, you find it difficult to implement any theory of judicial review...I find it hard for the good judge to pin any sort of label on himself." Should Ely ever don judicial robes, "he'd be tripped up sooner or later by a case that doesn't fit. Ely on the bench would not be Ely in the book...It would be an evil man who would disregard justice and law to follow his own theory," McGowan says...