Litigation

Monday Gavel Grab Briefs

By Peter Hardin

In these other dispatches about fair and impartial courts:

• A commentary by Palm Beach Post editorial page editor Randy Schultz slams a legislative proposal to expand from seven to 10 the Florida Supreme Court and to divide it into two panels. The proposal amounts to “court-packing, FDR-style, from self-styled conservatives,” Schultz writes, and is aimed at producing a “subservient judicial branch.”

• As part of a program to improve confidence in Illinois courts, judges will undergo mandatory performance evaluations. These are aimed at helping judges learn about potential performance problems, and fix them, according to a Rockford Register Star article.

• Former federal Judge Jack Camp was sentenced to 30 days in prison for drug related offenses involving a stripper. ?He has disgraced his office,? Senior U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan said of Camp at the sentencing, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.

Full post as published by The Gavel on March 14, 2011 (boomark / email).