Ketanji Brown Jackson
How Judge Jackson rules, drawn from 2 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
Judge Jackson left this court for the U.S. Supreme Court. This profile is preserved as a historical record of how they ruled here.
About Judge Jackson
Ketanji Brown Jackson was a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Appointed by President Joseph R. Biden, Judge Jackson received a commission on June 17, 2021. Judge Jackson previously served on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, commissioned there on March 26, 2013. Judge Jackson left the court on June 29, 2022 on appointment to the Supreme Court of the United States.
How Judge Jackson decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
She required the labor agency to confront the contrary reasoning that had supported its longstanding earlier policy.
“must acknowledge that in the past it reached the opposite conclusion about the need for congruity between the public- and private-sector bargaining thresholds.”
Cautions
She treated an unexplained reversal of a prior agency balancing as evidence that the new policy was not reasoned decisionmaking.
“That conclusion is precisely the opposite of the one that the FLRA reached here. The agency now ignores its earlier balancing of the factors unique to public-sector bargaining and fails to address the reasons that it previously found persuasive when it decided to select a test that differs from the one that pertains to private-sector bargaining.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“Consequently, the unions’ petitions for review are granted and the FLRA’s September 30, 2020 general statement of policy is vacated.”
“Therefore, the current judgment will be vacated, and we are remanding this matter back to the district court for this purpose.”
“Because we conclude that the district court’s jurisdictional holding must be reconsidered, we decline to address the parties’ damages arguments.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
Not applicable to this circuit-court record.
A historical record
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