“Our Kind of Rock Star:” Judge Edward Leavy Receives 2015 Devitt Award By Adair Law On November 13, 2015, Judge Edward Leavy, an outstanding son of Oregon and a senior jurist on the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, received the Edward J. Devitt Distinguished Service to Justice Award at the Supreme Court. The award was created in 1982 when Dwight D. Opperman, former president and chair of West Publishing Company, worked with Chief Justice Warren Burger to craft a high honor for an Article III federal judge for distinguished and exceptional service. The two men chose to name the award after their esteemed friend, Judge Edward J. Devitt, who…

Goodwin, Hon. Alfred T. *Book Review:  A Wake-Up Call For Judges2015 Wis. L. Rev. 785 (2015). “Proliferating international demand for American petro-chemical exports and soaring prices for compressed natural gas will soon produce a critical mass of litigation over the rights of the people of the United States versus the corporate capital now being invested in fracturing shale. If the horizontal drilling to execute fracking is indeed poisoning the water needed to sustain human life on the land above the fracking, plaintiffs who have standing will find lawyers and sue in their state and federal courts. Professor Mary Christina Wood of the University of Oregon School of Law has recently authored an…

One week he is in Texas doing a mediation, the next in San Francisco hearing motions. In a three-month period in late 2015, he was on the job every day. At 86 years old, Edward Leavy is still working, still going strong. For more:  https://www.osbar.org/publications/bulletin/16jan/profiles.html

They were brought together two years ago. She thought he looked like a sullen thug. He thought she looked like a strict high school principal. Then something changed. What happens when two people who come from different worlds are forced to meet twice a month for nearly a year? They discover heart. The one thing we all have in common.   For more:  http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/page/a_different_kind_of_justice.html#incart_big-photo

Judge Edward Leavy, a senior jurist on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, has been selected to receive what has been called the federal judiciary’s highest honor: the Edward J. Devitt Distinguished Service to Justice Award. For more:  http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2015/10/portland_us_appeals_judge_wins.html#incart_river_home