Litigation

Thursday Gavel Grab Briefs

By Peter Hardin

In other dispatches about fair and impartial courts:

• Among the ideas that incoming Justice Charlie Wiggins has for improving the work of the Washington Supreme Court is forging broader consensus, according to an Associated Press profile of the judicial reform advocate who will be sworn in Friday.

• In The Tennesseean, an editorial examines both sides of a question that is getting greater attention, involving whether the state’s merit selection plan for choosing appellate judges is constitutional.

• In a PrawfsBlog post, Howard Wasserman writes that he is “warming to the conclusion that judicial term limits may be appropriate–indeed the only appropriate solution to the question of judicial retention and tenure.”

• Victoria Kolakowski, the first openly transgender trial judge in the nation, took the oath of office in Oakland, California, the Bay Citizen reported.

Full post as published by The Gavel on January 06, 2011 (boomark / email).