[C]onstruing Bundy’s motion [as a request for a writ of mandamus], and because the district court and government filed answers to the petition, we will proceed to the merits.
There are no merits.
— A per curiam opinion (via How Appealing) of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, declining to order that controversial lawyer Larry Klayman be admitted pro hac vice to represent Cliven Bundy, instigator of the infamous 2014 Bundy Standoff in Nevada, in Bundy’s high-profile criminal trial.
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(Note that the court did not end its analysis there; the opinion, reflecting the views of Judge William Fletcher and Judge Jay Bybee, and the dissent, by Judge Ronald Gould, total 19 pages.)
David Lat is the founder and managing editor of Above the Law and the author of Supreme Ambitions: A Novel. He previously worked as a federal prosecutor in Newark, New Jersey; a litigation associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; and a law clerk to Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. You can connect with David on Twitter (@DavidLat), LinkedIn, and Facebook, and you can reach him by email at [email protected].