Litigation

Monday Gavel Grab Briefs

By Peter Hardin

In these other dispatches about fair and impartial courts:

• Lawyers for former Judge Mark A. Ciavarella Jr. of Luzerne County, Pa. appealed his conviction on seven of 12 criminal counts of corruption in the “cash for kids” scandal, according to a Wilkes-Barre Citizens Voice article.

• The future for Pennsylania state Sen. Jane Orie may rest on scientists’ opinions, after a judge assailed forged documents and declared a mistrial in Orie’s corruption case, an Associated Press article reported. Orie is accused of using  state resources for the political campaigns of herself and her sister, state Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin (see Gavel Grab).

• Goodwin Liu is a “brilliant professor” of law at a young age who deserves confirmation by the Senate to the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, a Washington Post editorial said about his controversial nomination.

Full post as published by The Gavel on March 07, 2011 (boomark / email).