Litigation

Monday Gavel Grab Briefs

By Peter Hardin

In these other dispatches about fair and impartial courts:

• U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer doesn’t plan to bow out of attendance at the president’s annual State of the Union address, he said on “Fox News Sunday,” according to a Washington Post article. “What (people) see in front of them at the State of the Union is that federal government,” Justice Breyer added. “And I would like them to see the judges too, because federal judges are also a part of that government.”

• An editorial in the Mason City Globe Gazette said a call for four remaining justices on the Iowa Supreme to resign, after voters had ousted three of their colleagues in November retention elections, was “petty, vindictive and should be ignored.”

• Joel Winnig, a candidate for the Wisconsin Supreme Court who wants to qualify for public financing, planned a disco bash to raise money from numerous supporters, the Madison Capital Times reported.

Full post as published by The Gavel on December 13, 2010 (boomark / email).