Judge Painter’s opinion selected as one of six best in nation in 2005. The Green Bag, a quarterly journal dedicated to good writing about the law, has announced its first annual list of outstanding legal writing from the past year. Of six judicial opinions selected from thousands in the United States, one of Court of Appeals Judge Mark Painter’s decisions, Kohlbrand v. Ranieri, was selected.  Judge Painter was the only state judge honored. The authors of the five other cases are all federal judges, including Justice Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court.  Read more.