Posted by Jonathan Adler: Is Sotomayor a "Judicial Activist"? http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_06_07-2009_06_13.shtml#1244418664
The National Law Journal�s Marcia Coyle [1]reports on recent studies seeking to measure �judicial activism� by federal appellate judges, and what those studies conclude about Sonia Sotomayor. Based upon these studies, Judge Sotomayor does not appear to be particularly �activist� compared to other judges across a wide range of cases. Of course, in this area, much may depend on how one defines the term, and it is conceivable a judge could confine his or her �activism� to a confined set of cases or subject matter. Coyle summarizes the conclusions of Frank Cross and Stephanie Lindquist in a second story [2]here. There research is based upon their book, [3]Measuring Judicial Activism, which Stephen Griffin wrote about [4]here. Corey Yung also has a series of blog posts reporting his methodology and preliminary results at Concurring Opinions in this series of posts: [5]1, [6]2, [7]3, and [8]4. References 1. http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202431272514 2. http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202431275733 3. http://oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Law/LawSociety/?view=usa&ci=9780195370850 4. http://balkin.blogspot.com/2009/05/lindquist-and-cross-on-judicial.html 5. http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2009/05/defining-judicial-activism-by-federal-appellate-judges.html 6. http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2009/05/measuring-judicial-activism-by-federal-appellate-judges.html 7. http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2009/06/applying-my-measure-of-judicial-activism.html 8. http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2009/06/mirror-mirror-on-the-wall-who-is-the-most-activist-of-them-all.html
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