by Marilyn L. Huff
Storied Third Branch | ArchivePublished April 2013 The Honorable Rudi M. Brewster dedicated his life to justice, integrity, professionalism, and service. I had the privilege of working with him for 37 years. He permitted Continue Reading »
by Eugene R. Wedoff
Storied Third Branch | ArchivePublished March 2013 There is a difference between being a good judge and being a good chief judge. John Schwartz, who served on the bankruptcy court in Chicago from 1984 Continue Reading »
by Michael Baylson
Storied Third Branch | ArchivePublished February 2013 Edward R. Becker was a most distinguished federal jurist and winner of the Devitt Award. This short essay is about Ed Becker as a person, incidental to Continue Reading »
by Paul S. Diamond
Storied Third Branch | ArchivePublished February 2013 I first met Lou Pollak in 1974, when I was a student at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Lou had just left Yale Law School, where Continue Reading »
by Richard M. Mosk
Storied Third Branch | ArchivePublished December 2012 My father, Justice Stanley Mosk, is well known for being the longest-serving member of the California Supreme Court and for rendering landmark decisions, many of which are Continue Reading »
by James A. Teilborg
Storied Third Branch | ArchivePublished December 2012 In some professions, death is a constant companion. But not in ours. Nothing prepared me for the phone message from our U.S. Marshal on Saturday, January 8, Continue Reading »
by Thomas B. Russell
Storied Third Branch | ArchivePublished December 2012 I am uncertain as to whether leaders are born or made. The same may be said with those we selectively call great. I do believe we recognize Continue Reading »
by Richard C. Tallman
Storied Third Branch | ArchivePublished November 2012 On September 24, 1969, the judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit convened at the U.S. Courthouse in Seattle for a special Continue Reading »
by Gene E.K. Pratter
Storied Third Branch | ArchivePublished November 2012 The Eastern District of Pennsylvania is a large, collegial trial court where quick humor and timely touches of humanity are as highly valued as intelligence and integrity. Continue Reading »
by Thomas W. Thrash, Jr.
Storied Third Branch | ArchivePublished November 2012 I approach the task of writing a remembrance of Charles Weltner with a sense of great humility and considerable inadequacy. But the opportunity to write such a Continue Reading »
