Litigation

Friday Gavel Grab Briefs

By Peter Hardin

In these other dispatches about fair and impartial courts:

• Former Justice Elizabeth Weaver of the Michigan Supreme Court — and her efforts to seek reform for that court — were profiled in a Toledo Blade article. You also can learn more about her by clicking here for earlier Gavel Grab posts.

• J. Paul Oetken, nominated by President Obama for a judgeship in Manhattan, could become the first openly gay man to sit on the federal bench, the New York Times reported.

• In an appearance at Kansas State University, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said she was pleased to see Republican and Democratic lawmakers sitting beside each other at this year’s State of the Union address, unlike their divided seating a year earlier, according to an Associated Press article.

Full post as published by The Gavel on January 29, 2011 (boomark / email).