Litigation

Wednesday Gavel Grab Briefs

By Peter Hardin

In other fair and impartial courts dispatches:

• A candidate for the Juvenile Court in Orleans Parish used a website to assail his opponent and her husband, who pleaded guilty a decade ago to a negligent homicide charge tied to a 1-year-old boy’s drowning, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reported. The target of the political attack called it distorted and “despicable.”
• A Des Moines Register editorial urged, “Finally, let cameras in courtrooms.”
• Two lawyers asked a panel of the Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to order an election be held for chief justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court before 2012, when the term of the current chief justice runs out, according to a Star-Tribune article.

Full post as published by The Gavel on September 22, 2010 (boomark / email).