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Posted on February 26, 2009Judge questions law giving telecoms immunity Daily Kos: Torture Commission Coming Soon Judge Who Closed Courthouse Doors Faces Discipline - TalkLeft: The Politics Of Crime Habeas at Bagram | Mother Jones Abrahamson won't return donations from lawyers - JSOnline Chief Justice Wants Merit Selection of Judges - Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - Copyright 2007 Ourtribune...
Nevada Lawmakers Debate Ending Judicial Elections
Posted on February 26, 2009Nevada is currently considering legislation that would end judicial elections and implement an appointment system, although it faces some opposition, according to an article in the Reno Gazette Journal. Saying that it is “demeaning and degrading” to force judges to collect campaign donations from those who appear before them in court, State Senate Minority Leader Bill [...
Michigan Court Studies Recusal Issue
Posted on February 26, 2009The Michigan Supreme Court justices are committed to addressing the issue of recusal, an article by the Detroit Free Press reported. As Caperton v. Massey, nears its hearing date, the state Supreme Court has paid close attention to the issue of recusal, specifically in terms of any reforms that should be made to the state’s rules on judicial [...
Gavel to Gavel Issue Released
Posted on February 26, 2009The National Center for State Courts has just released its newest edition of Gavel to Gavel, a summary of legislation affecting state courts. This week’s online issue features: Arkansas? Senate approves a bill allowing County Judges to designate their successors in the case of their death or disability in an emergency...
USA Today Column Eyes Caperton Issues
Posted on February 26, 2009A terrific column by Tony Mauro, respected Supreme Court reporter for the Washington Legal Times, appears in USA Today’s online edition. It is titled, “Can Money Obstruct Justice?” Mauro cites a recent poll by Justice at Stake and another by USA Today that show strong public belief that judges should not handle cases involving major campaign benefactors, [...
New Yorker Examines a ?Hard? Detainee Case
Posted on February 25, 2009A New Yorker magazine article, “The Hard Cases,” takes a close-up look at the case of Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, an alleged enemy combatant held without charge in a Charleston, S.C., brig, and the difficult policy choices facing President Obama...
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Posted on February 25, 2009PE.com | Southern California News | News for Inland Southern California Caperton resource page: pluses and minuses –The Carnegie Legal Reporting Program at Newhouse P.I.S.S.D. — Personal Injury, Social Security Disability. Dallas Texas Lawyers: Poll Finds People Doubt Impartiality Of Elected Judges Towards Their Donors Law Blog - WSJ...
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Posted on February 24, 2009U.S.: No habeas rights at Bagram | SCOTUSblog judgesonmerit.org » Changing the Rules in Wisconsin Sentencing Law and Policy: "The last thing the Supreme Court needs: Another judge" Obama?s Judicial Nominees - Ed Whelan - Bench Memos on National Review Online Law Blog - WSJ...
LA Times Joins Call to Free Uighurs
Posted on February 24, 2009The Los Angeles Times has joined the call, sounded in a recent Washington Post editorial, to free 17 Chinese Muslims held at Guantanamo, who have been found not to be enemy combatants. To read the Times editorial, click here.
Study Finds Links Between Contributions, Judicial Decisions
Posted on February 24, 2009A recent study found that campaign contributions can have a significant influence on decisions by state Supreme Court justices, an article in The National Law Journal reported. After studying judicial elections in Michigan, Texas, and Nevada, political scientists Chris Bonneau of the University of Pittsburgh and Damon Cann of Utah State University determined that ?campaign contributions [...
Legal Scholars Call for Supreme Court Reforms
Posted on February 23, 2009As reported in today’s Washington Post, a group of legal scholars have penned a letter to Vice President Joe Biden, Attorney General Eric Holder, and the chairs andranking minority members of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, urging a series of reforms to the United States Supreme Court...
Caperton Garners More Media Attention
Posted on February 23, 2009As Caperton v. Massey nears its hearing before the U.S. Supreme Court on March 3, attention on the recusal case continues to grow. The LA Times released an article on the high-profile West Virginia case, and a Detroit Free Press opinion column focused on the question of recusal ?when cash, courts and politics mix...
Poll: Public Wants Firewall Between Judges, Election Backers
Posted on February 23, 2009An overwhelming percentage of U.S. adults believes that judges cannot be completely impartial and should not participate in cases that involve large campaign contributors, according to a Harris Interactive poll commissioned by Justice at Stake. The national poll, which was cited in a Charleston Gazette article, said that 81% of surveyed adults believe that judges also should not decide whether it [...
Extreme Makeover Urged for Supreme Court
Posted on February 23, 2009… As reported in today’s Washington Post, a group of legal scholars have penned a letter to Vice President Joe Biden, Attorney General Eric Holder, and the chairs and ranking minority members of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, urging a series of reforms to the United States Supreme Court...
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Posted on February 21, 2009Keller violated judicial canons, state agency charges | Austin Legal Off the Kuff: Judicial conduct commission moves against Keller Law Blog - WSJ.com : Do Federal Judges Discriminate Against Discrimination Claims? ACSBlog: The Blog of the American Constitution Society: WSJ Examines Workers' Uphill Battles In Federal Courts judgesonmerit...
Impeachment for Texas Judge? NY Times Weighs In
Posted on February 20, 2009A Feb. 19 New York Times editorial discusses calls to impeach Texas Judge Sharon Keller, and two sentiments are hard to disagree with. First, that Keller showed “monumental callousness, as well as a fundamental misunderstanding of justice,” by closing her court at 5 p...
Washington Post Urges Obama to Release Uighurs
Posted on February 20, 2009A Washington Post editorial calls on President Obama to allow the 17 Chinese Uighurs still in captivity at Guantanamo to be allowed entry into the United States. The Uighurs have been detained in Guantanamo since 2002, despite a lack of evidence to hold them...
Ruling Lets Wisconsin Judges Get Partisan
Posted on February 20, 2009State judges can now join political parties, endorse political candidates, and seek campaign contributions, as a result of a federal judge’s ruling, according to a Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel article. In a case challenging the Wisconsin Judicial Commission, U...
W.Va. Case Echoes Grisham Novel?Again
Posted on February 20, 2009In an endless, eerie echo of John Grisham?s novel “The Appeal,” West Virginia residents have filed a lawsuit claiming that coal mining activities have intoxicated the local water. A recent article from The Washington Post reports that citizens of several towns are suing eight coal companies for contaminating their water by dispensing coal mine wastes into [...
links for 2009-02-20
Posted on February 20, 2009Court Blocks Release of Uighur Detainees Into U.S. - washingtonpost.com The Canadian Press: Sweden grants asylum to former Chinese Guantanamo detainee LegalNewsline.com | La. justices to U.S. SC: Don't believe everything you read Judge Says Wis...
ABA President Gives Update on Court Issues
Posted on February 20, 2009Few recent ABA presidents have made protecting the courts so central to their agenda as H. Thomas ?Tommy? Wells Jr. Gavel Grab was fortunate to talk with Tommy at last week?s American Bar Association midyear meeting, and he gave the following updates on issues affecting the courts...
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Posted on February 19, 2009Law.com - Judge Conflict Case Tests High Court Veteran Judicial Elections: Is There A Better Solution? | InjuryBoard Mobile judgesonmerit.org » Merit Selection Can Help Increase Confidence in Our Courts Dorf on Law: Supreme Tortship ACSBlog: The Blog of the American Constitution Society: Class Actions Target Corrupt Judges
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