Corporate & Securities Law

When Is Judicial Delay Sanctionable
A very interesting decision of the New York Commission on Judicial Conduct addresses the question of when delay in issuing decisions by a judicial officer constitutes a basis for discipline...

Gallanis on Victorian reform of civil litigation
I'd like to share with Blog readers my article, just published, on "Victorian Reform of Civil Litigation in the Superior Courts of Common Law." The article appears in C.H. van Rhee ed...

Court Admin upset over Judicial Discipline delay
KLAS-TV reports on the 18-month delay by the Nevada Judicial Discipline Commission in filing a complaint against Family Court Judge Del Vecchio. The report includes comments by Eighth Judicial District Court Administrator Chuck Short about the enormous delay in this case...

A New Strategy for Judicial Election Reform
Two legal scholars, saying that “judicial elections are here to stay,” are laying out a case for incremental rather than sweeping reform. Incremental change offers a more realistic option for reform in an era when state courts have been inundated with campaign cash and voters nonetheless have consistently rejected proposals to eliminate judicial elections and [...

New Senator Active in Judicial Reform
When West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin selected his former general counsel, Carte Goodwin, to fill temporarily a vacant U.S. Senate seat, Manchin selected a lawyer familiar with judicial reform issues...

Reform of Tennessee Judicial Ethics Body Advances
A compromise plan to reform the way judges are held accountable in Tennessee has won approval in both the state House Judiciary Committee and the state Senate Judicial Committee. The legislation would replace the Court of the Judiciary, as the state’s judicial discipline commission is known, with a “judicial board of conduct,” according to a [...

Texas, USA
alleging the Medical Malpractice and Tort Reform Act of 2003 violates several provisions of the Constitution.