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Lubet on Caperton v. Massey Energy

By Lawrence Solum

Steven Lubet (Northwestern University - School of Law) has posted It Takes a Court (Syracuse Law Review, Vol. 60, p. 221, 2010) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:

In the standard account of Caperton v. Massey Energy, it is a complex story about judicial elections, campaign contributions, conflicts of interest and the Due Process Clause. In another sense, however, it is a much more mundane story about poor judicial role modeling, in which an insensible West Virginia Supreme Court justice became notorious only because the followed the bad example of the United States Supreme Court itself. This article explains why courts of last resort (both SCOTUS and state supreme courts) should refer recusal motions to the entire court, rather than allow disqualification to be decided solely by the challenged justice.

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on May 03, 2010 (boomark / email).