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George Orwell could not have improved upon the opinion of Judge Alice M. Batchelder of the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in American Civil Liberties Union v. National Security Agency (July 6, 2007), a decision which fits comfortably within the pages of "1984. The opinion pivoted on a technical jurisdictional issue lawyers call "lack of standing," i.e., the asserted failure of the plaintiffs to allege the defendants' challenged conduct had caused them concrete injury that would be cured by a ruling in their favor. Without standing, a plaintiff cannot contest the legality of government action in federal courts. Thus, in denying standing in ACLU premised on the belief President Bush and his spy agencies are angels, Judge Batchelder fled from a judicial determination of the constitutio...
A federal appeals court judge in Cincinnati says a lower court's decision to remove a small poster of the Ten Commandments from a courthouse is an "absurdity" because the judge in that case rendered the decision in the shadow of a mural containing the commandments. Judge Alice M. Batchelder of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was in the minority, however, when both of her colleagues on the three-judge panel voted July 14 to uphold the lower court's decision to remove the poster.
... Defendant-Appellant. BEFORE: BATCHELDER, Chief Judge; GUY and MOORE, Circuit Judges. ALICE M. BATCHELDER, Chief Judge. In March 1993, a jury ...
... Before: BATCHELDER, Chief Judge; GILMAN and SUTTON, Circuit Judges. ... ALICE M. BATCHELDER, Chief Judge. On appeal of this case...
... Before: BATCHELDER, Chief Judge; GILMAN and SUTTON, Circuit Judges. ... ALICE M. BATCHELDER, Chief Judge. On appeal of this case...
... . BEFORE: BATCHELDER, Chief Circuit Judge; CLAY and GILMAN, Circuit Juddges. ALICE M. BATCHELDER, Chief Circuit Judge. Rosalind Kurit...
... Defendant-Appellant. BEFORE: BATCHELDER, Chief Judge; McKEAGUE, Circuit Judge; and FORESTEER. District Judge.*. ALICE M. BATCHELDER, Chief Judge. On appeal of this case...
... Defendants-Appellees. BEFORE: BATCHELDER, Chief Circuit Judge; COLE, Circuit Judge; ROSEN, Chief. District Judge.*. ALICE M. BATCHELDER, Chief Judge. Barbara Thompson injur...
... Defendant-Appellant. BEFORE: BATCHELDER, Chief Judge; GUY and MOORE, Circuit Judges. ALICE M. BATCHELDER, Chief Judge. David Lee Joslin was c...
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