By John Fritze
USA TODAY
December 29, 2021
WASHINGTON — Ask a colleague about Judge David Tatel and the conversation inevitably turns to a scene in which someone else is furiously flipping through papers.
It might be a courtroom story about a lawyer riffling through a legal brief in a panicked search for an answer to a question from the bench. It might be a fellow judge, opening a binder during a private meeting to parse the wording of an obscure federal statute.
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