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: The GavelWednesday Media Summary
By Nancy Palencia
CITIZENS UNITED/CAMPAIGN FINANCE
The Defenders Online:
The Cost of "Free Speech" in 'Citizens United' for Black Candidates Olympia Duhart – 4/13/2010
The Atlantic Wire: Democrats Aim to Curb Corporate Political Influence
Max Fisher – 4/13/2010
Politico: Citizens United answer almost ready
KENNETH P. VOGEL – 4/14/2010
OpEdNews.com: Corporatocracy and Its Discontents
David Swanson – 4/13/2010
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Senate votes to turn back ban on corporate election spending
Jason Stein and Patrick Marley – 4/13/2010
NATIONAL SECURITY/COURTS
Main Justice: Holder, Justice and Terror
George J. Terwilliger III – 4/14/2010
MISSOURI PLAN CHALLENGE
St.Louis Post-Dispatch: Groups battling over Missouri Plan are fuzzy
on donors
Tony Messenger – 4/14/2010
TEXAS SUPREME COURT ELECTIONS
Dallas Morning News/AP: Lehrmann wins GOP Texas Supreme Court race
4/13/2010
FEDERAL NOMINATIONS
FOX News/Speaker’s Lobby: Democratic Senators Bemoan Delays for Judicial Nominees
John Brandt – 4/13/2010
BusinessWeek/Bloomberg: Democrats to Move Judicial Nominees as High Court Battle Looms
Laura Litvan – 4/13/2010
Politico: Democrats launch push for judicial nominations
KASIE HUNT & MEREDITH SHINER – 4/13/2010
AllGov: Obama Judicial Nominees More Diverse than Bush's
Noel Brinkerhoff – 4/14/2010
Right Side News: Worst Obama Court Pick Yet: Goodwin Liu
Andrea Lafferty – 4/13/2010
NORTH CAROLINA PUBLIC FINANCING
Mountain Xpress: State judicial candidates belly up to the reform bar
Nelda Holder – 4/14/2010
ACCESS TO COURTS
Michigan Public Radio: Defending The Poor
Rick Pluta – 4/13/2010
Michigan Messenger: Indigent defense on trial with state high court
Ed Brayton – 4/14/2010
CONSITUTIIONAL INTERPRETATION
NY Times: Our Fill-in-the-Blank Constitution
GEOFFREY R. STONE – 4/14/2010
PROP 8 CHALLENGE
California Progress Report: Prop 8 Supporters Target New Enemy: Impartial Judges of California Courts
Dan Aiello – 4/12/2010
FireDogLake: Prop 8: No 2010 Re-Vote; Judge Walker Wants to Close Evidence Record
Teddy Partridge – 4/13/2010
LA Times: The politics of Prop. 8
Editorial – 4/14/2010
KANSAS COURTS/BUDGETS
Topeka Capital-Journal: Furloughed workers to get some pay
Steve Fry – 4/13/2010
REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS
Neb. governor signs landmark abortion bills
Nate Jenkins – 4/13/2010
PORTEOUS IMPEACHMENT
New Orleans Times-Picayune: Judge Thomas Porteous will get ‘expeditious but fair trial’ in Senate
Bruce Alpert – 4/13/2010
JUDICIAL ETHICS OVERSIGHT
OANow.com: Judges should not be immune to public inquiries
Editorial – 4/13/2010
RHODE ISLAND SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENTS
Providence Journal: Indeglia nears seat on Supreme Court
Michael P. McKinney – 4/14/2010
JUDICIAL MISCONDUCT
The Recorder: Judge Receives a Scolding After Hugging Defendant
Cheryl Miller – 4/14/2010
SUPREME COURT STUDY
NY Times: 10 Ways to Study the U.S. Supreme Court With The New York Times
SARAH KAVANAGH AND KATHERINE SCHULTEN – 4/13/2010
Full post as published by The Gavel on April 14, 2010 (boomark / email).
Marketing Spam
Member Source Media pays $200,000 civil penalty for deceptive online advertising.
Nielsen Media Challenged
TV ratings company to pay undisclosed settlement in antitrust lawsuit.
Media/Telecom
consumer rights involving print, radio, television, video, DVD, video games, and mobile telephones.
Wireless Entertainment
Kangaroo Media pays Immersion Entertainment $2 million patent infringement settlement.

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