"I would hope that he would look beyond the Circuit Courts of Appeals, which now populate the Supreme Court, and pick someone with greater world experience,".
VOA: standard.2009.05.03
By my count, pardon me, at least 17 of our cases have been decided by the federal courtsofappeals, and we have been fortunate in prevailing in all 17.
The questions of how and when an agency may exempt itself from the Privacy Act are not only central to this case, but also have divided the federal courtsofappeals into two camps, a circuit split that could be resolved by the U.S. Supreme Court should Shearson petition successfully for her case to be heard.
She is a nationally recognized appellate litigator who has practiced extensively before the Supreme Court ofthe United States, the U.S. Court ofAppeals, and the appellate courtsofthe state of New York.