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"Ex-justice spent 4 decades on bench"

"Ex-justice spent 4 decades on bench": Today's edition of The Columbus Dispatch contains an obituary that begins, "J. Craig Wright, a pugnacious justice who served 11 years on the Ohio Supreme Court, died Wednesday in California. He was 80."

According to the obituary, Wright was "involved in one of the most infamous episodes in court history" when he had a physical altercation with another Justice serving on Ohio's highest court that caused the other Justice to sustain three broken ribs. But, the obituary goes on to report, "The two justices later reconciled and became friends."

Full post as published by How Appealing on February 05, 2010 (boomark / email).