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THIS COULD BE A PROBLEM

By "Captain Liberty" and "Rumpole"

The title of the post links to the US Supreme Court's recent decision in Caperton v. A.T. Massey. The case reached the Supremes when the West Virginia Supreme Court (motto: "readin and writin at the highest legal levels") voted 3-2 to overturn a 50 million dollar verdict.  Una momento por favor:  One of the Justices in the majority had received a campaign contribution in an "extraordinary amount"  from the CEO of the company that was appealing the verdict.  Writing for the majority, Justice Kennedy wrote that " Under our precedents there are objective standards that require recusal when the probability of actual bias on the part of the judge or decisionmaker is too high to be constitutionally tolerable.?   Just how bad were things in West Virginia?  Of two of three judges in the majority, the CEO of the defendant company had contributed 3...continue to full post

Full post as published by Justice Building Blog on June 09, 2009 (boomark / email).