…And the Best Summary of a Recent Appellate Case Posted on the Internets in Recent Memory award goes to USD law professor Shaun Martin, author of the California Appellate Report, for his succinct, understandable, and highly amusing summary of today’s Ninth Circuit opinion in Humane Society v. Gutierrez (9th Cir. 08-35035). Prof. Martin, who snarked on me and my efforts during my own forays into appellate law, redeems himself today by capturing the essence of both the procedural and substantive wrinkles of the Ninth Circuit Motion Panel’s treatment of the headline-grabbing Sea Lion Kill case.
