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D.C. Circuit News: Chief Judge Sentelle Taking Senior Status

Steve Vladeck
Friday, November 30, 2012, 12:09 PM
Courtesy of Todd Ruger from the National Law Journal, it appears that D.C. Circuit Chief Judge David Sentelle will be taking senior status as of February 12, 2013. That will reduce to seven the total number of active D.C.

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Courtesy of Todd Ruger from the National Law Journal, it appears that D.C. Circuit Chief Judge David Sentelle will be taking senior status as of February 12, 2013. That will reduce to seven the total number of active D.C. Circuit judges (Henderson, Rogers, Tatel, Garland, Brown, Griffith, and Kavanaugh, JJ.), and increase to four the number of vacancies on the nation's "second-most-important" court--and certainly the court of most frequent relevance to much of the stuff we cover here...

Steve Vladeck is a professor of law at the University of Texas School of Law. A 2004 graduate of Yale Law School, Steve clerked for Judge Marsha Berzon on the Ninth Circuit and Judge Rosemary Barkett on the Eleventh Circuit. In addition to serving as a senior editor of the Journal of National Security Law & Policy, Steve is also the co-editor of Aspen Publishers’ leading National Security Law and Counterterrorism Law casebooks.

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