The 9th Circuit Gets One Right

Coodoes to the federal court in California for actually providing a ruling which is not patently absurd and likely to be overturned by the Supreme Court. This very well may be a first.

A U.S. federal judge tossed out a lawsuit by California's attorney general on Monday seeking hundreds of millions of dollars from six automakers for damaging the state with climate-changing greenhouse gases.

Martin Jenkins, a federal judge in the Northern District of California, said the issue of global warming should be decided in the political rather than legal arena.

This distinction between the political and legal arenas usually doesn't hinder California courts.