On Tuesday, July 30, the en banc Fifth Circuit vacated the preliminary injunction that Judge David Ezra had entered in the buoy case. (Ilya wrote about the case here.) To date, the Fifth Circuit has not yet issued the mandate in that case, which remains before the court of appeals. What has happened over the past eight days is weird–so strange that I worry about Judge Ezra. I will lay out the chronology as best as I can, and offer some commentary along the way. I apologize for the length of this post, but there is much ground to cover.
