{"id":6495,"date":"2014-02-05T12:51:03","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T18:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=6495"},"modified":"2014-02-05T12:51:03","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T18:51:03","slug":"judge-chen-presiding-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=6495","title":{"rendered":"Judge Chen &#8212; Presiding Judge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With all the new blood on the Federal Circuit these days, it has not taken long for some of the recent appointees to step into the role of presiding judge of various panels. \u00a0Judge Wallach has already had that responsibility. \u00a0Yesterday, even Judge Chen served as presiding judge in oral arguments. \u00a0The other panel members on Judge Chen&#8217;s panel included Judge Hughes and Senior Judge Clevenger.<\/p>\n<p>When a presiding judge is part of the majority of judges deciding a case, he or she assigns the judge who will author the opinion for the court. \u00a0That is one reason that you often see the more senior judges authoring the majority opinions in high stakes\u00a0<em>en banc<\/em> decisions \u00a0&#8212; namely, the most senior judge in the majority assigned himself or herself to author the opinion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all the new blood on the Federal Circuit these days, it has not taken long for some of the recent appointees to step into the role of presiding judge of various panels. \u00a0Judge Wallach has already had that responsibility. \u00a0Yesterday, even Judge Chen served as presiding judge in oral arguments. \u00a0The other panel members [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6495"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6495"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6497,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6495\/revisions\/6497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}