OPENING LINES OF JUDGMENTS: “DUMB, DUMB, DUMB”: “WE SHOULD AVOID DOING DUMB THINGS. ESPECIALLY ONES THAT ARE DUMB”

I often do an annual review of opening lines of judgments.  This review has never had any jurisdictional limits.  For that reason I am able to review the judgment yesterday of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Orellana -v- Barr .  This is a concurring judgment by Judge Owen...