Litigation

Monday Gavel Grab Briefs

By Peter Hardin

In these other dispatches about fair and impartial courts:

• Shira Goodman of Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts, a partner of Justice at Stake, was among those quoted in a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review article suggesting that a political shift in the state capital will lend momentum to the cause of appointing rather than selecting state appellate judges.

• There isn’t adequate evidence to seek criminal charges against Jim King, president of the Louisville, Kentucky Metro Council, for giving $135,000 to his daughter Katie’s judicial campaign in 2008, prosecutors said, according to a Louisville Courier-Journal article.

• With the constitutionality of President Obama’s health care law under challenge in federal courts, an ABC News report is entitled, “Battle Over Obama Health Care Law: A Legal Primer.”

Full post as published by The Gavel on January 24, 2011 (boomark / email).