Legal Commentary

Bipartisan Judicial Screening Panels
Cooling Off Judicial Selections is a very interesting September 8, 2008 National Law Journal article (registration required). It discusses a recent recommendation by the American Bar Association to expand the use of bipartisan judicial nomination commissions...

U.S. Senate committee OKs 3 Michigan judicial nominees
The Grand Rapids Press reports: The Senate Judiciary Committee cleared three Michigan judicial nominees on Thursday, advancing a Clinton era appointment whose nomination stalled for years during the late 1990s...

"Judicial-Pay Bill in Jeopardy"
"Judicial-Pay Bill in Jeopardy?" Ed Whelan has this post today at National Review Online's "Bench Memos" blog. On Monday night, I linked here to Lawrence Hurley's article headlined "Senate's Effort to Ban Junkets Could Stall Judicial Pay Raises" published that day in The Daily Journal of California.

Patent Reexamination Used to Stall Patent Enforcement
Here a link to an interesting article in the May 5, 2008 issue of Forbes, that highlights the use of anonymous, ex parte requests for reexamination to the Patent Office. The result of a reexamination is to stall enforcement of the patent against possible infringers...

"Appeal to stall Jefferson trial for months"
"Appeal to stall Jefferson trial for months": The Times-Picayune of New Orleans provides a news update that begins, "New Orleans Congressman William Jefferson on Wednesday appealed a key ruling in his public corruption case, a move certain to delay the trial -- possibly until the fall election season...

Democrats Continue to Stall on Judicial Nominees
Citizen Link reports: . . . ?The left-wing groups ? People For the American Way, Alliance for Justice, the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) ? desperately want these spots on the 4th Circuit and D...