Litigation

Monday Gavel Grab Briefs

By Peter Hardin

In these other dispatches about fair and impartial courts:

• In the latest installment of a series about the workings of the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts, the New York Times published a lengthy article that was headlined, “Justices Offer Receptive Ear to Business Interests.”

• In Newsweek, retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor interviewed retired Justice John Paul Stevens. The sub-headline reads, “They’ve left the bench, but they still have opinions. Two former justices talk about how they’ve evolved — and how they feel about being overruled by a changing court.”

• “A Black Hawk County associate juvenile judge who was charged with drunken driving will likely continue on the bench while awaiting trial,” the West Cedar Falls (Iowa) Courier reported.
  

Full post as published by The Gavel on December 20, 2010 (boomark / email).