Via How Appealing I’ve learned the Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit will assume senior status at the end of this year. Judge O’Scannlain was nominated to the Ninth Circuit thirty years ago by President Ronald Reagan. During the intervening decades, he has served with honor and distinction and was often a lonely voice of reason on the nation’s left-most circuit.