Litigation

Monday Gavel Grab Briefs

By Peter Hardin

In these other dispatches about fair and impartial courts:

• “A judge does not check his First Amendment rights at the courthouse door, to be reclaimed at the expiration of his judicial tenure,” Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said in a ruling that endorsed an unnamed judge’s right to make remarks outside the courtroom. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported on the decision.

• A bipartisan bill introduced in the U.S. Senate would allow, but not require, federal and appellate judges to let cameras or other electronic media access to courtrooms, according to a Blog of Legal Times article.

• A federal judge upheld as constitutional Maine’s campaign finance reporting law, a Kennebec Journal article reported. The challenge was brought by the National Organization for Marriage.

Full post as published by The Gavel on February 21, 2011 (boomark / email).