Litigation

Friday Gavel Grab Briefs

By Peter Hardin

In these other dispatches about fair and impartial courts:

• A letter by Justice at Stake and the Brennan Center for Justice urged tweaks to a proposed New York judicial ethics proposal while strongly commending it. The letter was the topic of a Legal Newsline article entitled, “Groups see two problems with N.Y.’s disqualification rule.”

• Judge Lubbie Harper Jr., a descendant of slaves, was confirmed by Connecticut lawmakers to a seat on the state Supreme Court. His confirmation came despite some lawmakers’ protests that Judge Harper had voted in favor of permitting same-sex marriage in the state, according to a Hartford Courant article.

• A grand jury indicted an Alaska couple on charges of conspiring to murder a federal judge, his family and an IRS employee, out of anger over tax rulings that went against the couple, an Associated Press article reported.

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