An item in our Feb. 24 SCRABOOK, “Good News for CCRI,” unwittingly made the good news sound better than it was. We suggested that one of Judge Thelton Henderson’s two edicts blocking California’s new anti-preferences law had been overturned. Not quite. An appeals panel declined to take that step and instead took what could prove to be a bigger one: assuming future jurisdiction of the entire case from Henderson — while criticizing his reasoning from the bench.
