Litigation

Tuesday Gavel Grab Briefs

By Peter Hardin

In these other dispatches about fair and impartial courts:

• A new study of laughter during the Supreme Court’s oral arguments suggests the justices are laughing with those advocates appearing before them, not at the lawyers, according to a Washington Post article.

• “Life’s a beach for federal judges,” declared a Philadelphia Daily News headline for a story about some federal judges traveling to the U.S. Virgin Islands to hear cases, and the pros and cons of their doing so.

• “Donations influenced Supreme Court decision, doctor says,” is the headline for a Columbus Dispatch article about an appeal in a malpractice case.

Full post as published by The Gavel on January 18, 2011 (boomark / email).