Litigation

Wednesday Gavel Grab Briefs

By Peter Hardin

In these other dispatches about fair and impartial courts:

• On the eve of U.S. Supreme Court arguments in a major employment discrimination case, Wal-Mart v Dukes, a Washington Post editorial was headlined, “Supreme Court justices aren’t political hacks in robes.”

• He is known as the “Ten Commandments judge.” Former Chief Justice Ray Moore of the Alabama Supreme Court is considering a campaign for the GOP presidential nomination, the Associated Press reported. Last year, Moore campaigned in Iowa against retention of three state Supreme Court justices who joined a ruling that permitted same-sex marriage, according to a Radio Iowa report.

• Judge M. Blane Michael of the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals died at age 68. A Greenwire article about him in the New York Times was entitled, “Federal Judge is Remembered for Vigorous Dissent in Mountaintop Case.”

Full post as published by The Gavel on March 30, 2011 (boomark / email).