I’m interested to learn that Ninth Circuit judge William Fletcher is serving on the American Constitution Society panel charged with selecting the recipients of ACS’s 2021 Carliner Award.

When I saw that Ninth Circuit judge William Fletcher had issued a habeas ruling today (in Ford v. Peery) over the partial dissent of Judge Ryan Nelson, I thought uh oh, here we go again.

Judge William Fletcher: This is yet another sad chapter in the story of how the judiciary has been willing to bend or break its own rules and standards in order to publicize the proceedings of a ...

written by Judge William Fletcher, injected lots of indeterminacy into the seemingly elementary question of what it means for an alien to have “reentered the United States illegally.” ...

“There is nothing — either in federal law or in GEO’s contract with the federal government — that prevents GEO from paying Washington’s minimum wage to its civil detainees who perform work for the ...

Washington’s law “is part of a state’s historic powers, to establish and require payment of a minimum wage,” wrote Judge William Fletcher, joined by the court’s chief judge, Mary Murguia.