The Ninth Circuit
Greetings! Welcome to the new blog!
What is The Ninth Circuit Blog of Appeals all about? A little background is in order, and unless you arrived here via The California Blog of Appeal, you’ll want to follow the links in the remainder of this post to get the best idea of what to expect here. (By the way, I’ll be leaving this announcement at the top of the blog for a while to greet new readers [including all those you tell about this blog, hint, hint] — on return visits, look below this introductory post for new material.)
Those of you familiar with my blogging can think of this as a federal version of my original blog, The California Blog of Appeal, which I launched in spring 2007 as a source of information for litigants and attorneys — trial and appellate attorneys alike — about legal developments impacting appellate practice in the California state courts and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. That’s right, I’ve already been blogging about federal issues for nearly three years. The Ninth Circuit Blog of Appeals is a “spin-off” of sorts, where I will now address the federal issues I would otherwise blog about at The California Blog of Appeal, which will concentrate on state issues now.
At The California Blog of Appeal, I explain the reasons for the spin-off and how that blog is likely to change as a result (it’s not as simple a split in subject matter as you might think). Regular and new readers alike are encouraged to follow that link, and new readers especially should follow the links in that post.
As a sort of head start, and to give you a better idea of what to expect, I recently created some posts for December developments and have published them here backdated to the time of the relevant event. Scroll down to read them. I intend regular posting to be more frequent.
In the weeks ahead, keep a close eye on the sidebar items and navigation links, which will probably change as I fine tune the information to be provided in those spots. And if you run across any glitches in the blog — e.g., a link that doesn’t work, a font that’s too tiny to read, comment submission that doesn’t work, even typos — I’d sure appreciate it if you would e-mail me about it at greg@ninthcircuitblogofappeals.com. Though I’ve spent a fair amount of time on the technical aspects of setting up and test driving this blog, I’m still tinkering a little behind the scenes, and some kinks may show up when this blog goes live. Your help in identifying them would be appreciated. For example, the content of the linked pages in the navigation bar is organized very differently than at The California Blog of Appeal. Did I go overboard and split it into too many pages?
Finally, let me note an important caveat: this blog is an experiment. Many readers will want to subscribe to both blogs, but many won’t. While I hope that each blog will reach its intended audience, if blog traffic indicates to me that the material on the two blogs really belongs on a single blog again, I’ll recombine them.
UPDATE (1/6/10): Well, somebody is sure spreading the word in the federal court system! My Sitemeter stats show a long string of hits from the federal courts.
