Now that the 6th Circuit is slated to hear an appeal stemming from a Detroit federal judge's finding that the president's wiretapping program is unconstitutional, the spotlight is again on the issue of how much a trial court opinion influences the odds of affirmance or reversal. Attorney Howard Bashman examines the factors that go into predicting the outcome of an appellate proceeding, and offers predictions on how the next phase of litigation over the National Security Agency surveillance will shake out.
August 21, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
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A ruling from a Detroit federal judge last week holding unconstitutional President Bush’s domestic wiretapping program has caused many supporters of and objectors to the legality of that program to agree on one thing: U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor’s opinion was analytically weak and, in the absence of sound legal analysis, too full of rhetorical flourishes.
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