You be the judge

Re “A new No. 1 at the 9th Circuit,” Opinion, Nov. 30

It is difficult to understand how Carl Tobias could leave out of his account of the change of chief judge in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals the fact that this is the most reversed court in the land, because so many of those reversals occurred during the tenure of Chief Judge Mary M. Schroeder.

Ted Smythe

Park City, Utah

The writer is a professor of communications emeritus at Cal State Fullerton.

Judge Alex Kozinski visited my law school class at the invitation of my professor, former California Supreme Court Justice Joseph Grodin, whose liberal attitude is almost the opposite of Kozinski’s.

Besides Kozinski’s intelligence and willingness to engage in a dialogue with people who do not agree with his conservatism, what impressed me most was his sense of humor.

This may be best shown in his opinion in the case of United States vs. Syufy Enterprises, an antitrust case involving the issue of monopolization of movie theaters in Las Vegas. His opinion in that case is written using the titles of 204 movies. A copy of the case, with links to the films cited, is available online at https://notabug.com/kozinski/syufyRandall H. Stoner

Victorville