Litigation

Thursday Gavel Grab Briefs

By Peter Hardin

In these other dispatches about fair and impartial courts:

• President Obama’s controversial nomination of Goodwin Liu, a Berkeley law professor, for a seat on the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will be the topic of a second hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, on March 2, according to the Blog of Legal Times. Liu’s nomination died in the Senate last year after Republicans stalled action.

• “Don’t politicize court” by revising Kansas’ merit selection process for the state Court of Appeals, a Wichita Eagle editorial urged. For more about the proposal in the legislature, check out Gavel Grab.

• Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour named Court of Appeals Chief Judge Leslie King to the state Supreme Court, for a seat vacated by the recent move of then-Justice James Graves to the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals; both jurists are African American, according to an Associated Press report.
  

Full post as published by The Gavel on February 24, 2011 (boomark / email).