“Lucy Koh, a federal judge in San Jose who has refereed Silicon Valley wars over patents and employment, was nominated Thursday by President Obama to the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, a nomination with an uncertain future because of a partisan standoff over judicial appointments,” Bob Egelko reports for The San Francisco Gate.
“Koh, 47, a former federal prosecutor, was nominated to the U.S. District Court by Obama in 2010 and confirmed 90-0 by the Senate,” Egelko reports. “She became the nation’s second-ever Korean American federal judge and would be the second of Korean ancestry on an appeals court if confirmed to the Ninth Circuit… She is married to state Supreme Court Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar.”
“But the climate for Obama’s nominees has grown chillier as his term nears an end. Senate Republican leaders have refused to consider anyone the president chooses to succeed the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia,” Egelko reports. “And the Republican-controlled Senate confirmed only one appeals court judge last year and another one last month, leaving numerous seats unfilled. Republicans have been particularly critical of the Ninth Circuit, one of the nation’s more liberal appeals courts.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Failing upwards.
This nomination makes no sense unless Obama’s smoking crack.
Senate confirmation hearings for Koh should move no quicker than her most notable trial, Apple v. Samsung.
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It’s the 9th Circuit. Lucy Koh, Vladimir Lenin, Mao Zedong, what’s the difference?
Let’s not be biased here. First off, this judge is probably eminently qualified for the position. Second, overall she has tried to give all parties a fair hearing in her court. Third, just because at times she has not always ruled or even said things that are the most pro-Apple, doesn’t mean she is unqualified or somehow lacking.
I love Apple, the company, the products. In general, I side with the company in its legal battles. But I am not so naive as to expect Apple to be perfect or to argue its cases in a perfect manner. Let’s also face it: if you legal counsel does argue your case zealously, there will probably be times that the judge smacks that legal counsel down. That’s the way the game is played.
The President cannot choose court nominees based on who is most pro-Apple or pro any company.
A judge who somehow perceived that Apple was violating antitrust laws at a time when Amazon (major Obama contributor) monopolized e-books does not seem, on the surface “eminently qualified”: eminently ideological, perhaps.
Are you referring to Côte in New York? Koh is the one who thinks Apple doesn’t have a right to patents and should be nice and share them with samdung.
Actually, Koh is the Judge who recognizes that the law on IP is far more complicated than anyone who posts on here realizes, and who ruled according to that law – rulings that have so far mainly been affirmed on appeal. MDN and the fanatics here want to blame her for that law – law that many people think is outdated and not equipped to handle modern patent cases. But her job is to apply the law as written – not to be an activist judge who tries to make new laws. That’s Congress’ job.
Most lawyers who live in the IP world in this part of the country think she is an excellent judge – hard but fair. She is also recognized as being very intelligent and as having a good understanding of the very technical arguments those lawyers make.
Are you fucking kidding me???
I guess this is her reward for abiding by the the administration’s orders…
Shhh… it’s Wade. He think’s Obama’s shit is candy.
They cleared out Apples “win” to a loss. They invalidated all Apple patents. Now they get ready for when Apple takes the FBI overreach to the Supreme Court. Expect a lot more pain to come Apples way. They will fine Apple to bankruptcy.
I still think it’s all revenge for when Steve Jobs said Obama was unimpressive.
The Court also severely limited the IP theft lawsuit in the first place, too.
Not if Tim and Apple take off and move their headquarters to the free and civilized world. As long as they remain in that cesspool of a nation, though, that so called government will be directing a lot of pain to Apple. Apples wants to empower people and it goes that they are a threat to anyone who wishes to usurp the power of the wee people.
Excuse me RW, but just what part of Shangri-La do you live in?
I don’t live in Shangri-La. What’s the point of your question by the way?
Next, Obummer will nominate that Amazon trial judge to the Supreme Court.
I am sorry to say that my opinion of Obama just when down the drain…
Keep sticking it to Apple at your own peril President Obama, Apple is and has always been the underdog that fights the good fight.
You’ve let a lot of your supporters down and only strenghtened accusations that you’re trying to compensate for you mistakes in leadership.
Instant Karma gonna get you.
Does anyone remember the Peter Principle? I thought’d she’d already risen to her level of incompetence!
Heh! Beat me to it. Frighteningly incompetent and beyond inept.
If you really want to see the level of her incompetence, read this: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/In-Silicon-Valley-Lucy-Koh-is-the-law-5679303.php
She needs to be confirmed by the Senate. Hopefully that bunch of do-nothing’s will continue doing just that.
I just told my senators to not approve Koh as well as to not punish Apple for standing up for the people’s 4th Amendment rights. It seems that the Congress is backwards by giving the National Security Police State Appartus more 4th Amendment rights than peolpe.
This is part of the DOJ retribution strategy for Apple’s refusal to roll over for the Gov’t.
OMF. After her ruination of the Apple v Samsung cases through her own incompetence, we see her promoted BEYOND her level of incompetence. #MyStupidGovernment.