The Ninth Circuit may be getting slapped around by the Supreme Court lately. (Yeah, what else is new.) But they continue to go about their business. Keep on truckin', Your Honors!

One of you was kind enough to attend a recent Ninth Circuit sitting -- not just any old sitting, but the one graced by that judicial celebrity, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor -- and send us a detailed report.

That account of the oral argument -- plus a bonus judicial sight-ation, and some added commentary from us -- appears after the jump.