Alex Kozinski, Federal Judges

Judge Kozinski's Dis Of A Fellow Feeder Judge

Who knew that commercial speech and the First Amendment could provoke such a strong reaction?

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Judge J. Skelly Wright (Library of Congress)

Judge J. Skelly Wright (Library of Congress)

There’s a good reason we often refer to him as Skelly Wrong.

— Judge Alex Kozinski, affectionately dissing the late Judge J. Skelly Wright at a very interesting conference on commercial speech and the First Amendment hosted yesterday at Davis Wright Tremaine by Yale Law School’s Information Society Project. Judge Kozinski supports giving commercial speech the same level of First Amendment protection as noncommercial speech, while Judge Wright felt otherwise.

(Like Judge Kozinski (9th Cir.), Judge Wright (D.C. Cir.) in his time was a leading light of the federal judiciary and major feeder judge. You can see a list of some of Judge Wright’s former law clerks — including Solicitor General Don Verrilli, former Tenth Circuit Judge Michael McConnell, current Ninth Circuit Judge Raymond Fisher, and K&L Gates chair Peter J. Kalis — here.)

David Lat is the founder and managing editor of Above the Law and the author of Supreme Ambitions: A Novel. You can connect with David on Twitter (@DavidLat), LinkedIn, and Facebook, and you can reach him by email at dlat@abovethelaw.com.

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