The Problem With Multidistrict Litigation

Advisory Opinions

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🗓️ 6 February 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Sarah and David invite District Judge Vince Chhabria on the pod to explain the state of multidistrict litigation and answer the question: Why does he listen to Advisory Opinions? The Agenda: —Justice Breyer’s jurisprudence —Judging vs. personal value judgments —David’s cringe a cappella group name —Constitutionality of magistrate judges —How to fix forum shopping —MDLs, explained —The pros and cons of MDLs —How to become a judge —Judge Chhabria’s clerk hiring process Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You ready?
0:02.0	I was born ready. Welcome to advisory opinions. I'm Sarah Isger, that's David French, and boy, do we have a treat for you guys?
0:26.3	It turns out this podcast has had a fairy godmother this whole time.
0:31.0	Well, fairy godfather, actually. And we're going to talk to him. It's
0:34.9	going to be such a treat. He's a district court judge in the Northern District of
0:39.7	San Francisco, a Obama appointee, Breyer, Briar Clerk, y'all have been asking for it and it turned
0:46.8	out he was there the whole time. But before we get to him real quick, just a little
0:51.3	housekeeping one, we are not going to have our normal
0:54.4	Thursday morning episode of advisory opinions because the Supreme Court is
0:59.7	hearing argument in the Colorado 14th Amendment Section 3
1:02.7	disqualification case that morning.
1:04.7	So instead, we will do an emergency pod turnaround
1:08.3	right after the argument.
1:09.5	We will tape and we will try to get it out
1:10.9	to you Thursday night as quickly as we can.
1:13.6	Also housekeeping, lots of filings swirling back and forth in the Fawnee Willis Georgia effort
1:21.8	in the trial of
1:24.4	other January 6th related folks.
1:28.1	We're not gonna talk about that today.
1:29.6	There's also a lot of factual disputes here
1:31.7	and I think just like we need a time out until the
1:34.2	hearings happen. David do you agree with that? I agree with that. There's so much
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