Litigation

Wednesday Gavel Grab Briefs

By Peter Hardin

In these other dispatches about fair and impartial courts:

• To cut costs and trim the power of the judicial branch, a Montana Republican legislator is proposing to reduce the size of the state Supreme Court from seven justices to five, according to a KFBB.com report.

• The Nevada Supreme Court will make all documents in cases filed with it available publicly online, making it one of the first appellate courts in the country to do so for free, according to Chief Justice Michael Douglas, who was quoted by a Reno Gazette Journal article.

• “The Roberts court is hearing a larger share of cases about economic activities that matter to big business than the Rehnquist court before it,” a New York Times editorial stated in discussing former solicitors general representing business interests before the U.S. Supreme Court. The editorial was entitled, “Friends of the Court?”

Full post as published by The Gavel on January 19, 2011 (boomark / email).