Litigation

Tuesday Gavel Grab Briefs

By Peter Hardin

In these other dispatches about fair and impartial courts:

• From Arizona, there are reports of murmurs in the legislature about a possible move to restore direct election of judges for the state Supreme Court, the state Court of Appeals and the superior courts in Maricopa and Pima counties, according to an Arizona Business Gazette article by Capitol Media Services.

• A nonprofit group called Tennesseeans for Fair and Impartial Courts is seeking donations, according to a Nashville Post article, to defend the Tennessee Plan for selecting judges from assaults by those who would like to move to partisan judicial elections. All appeals court judges currently are chosen through merit selection.

• Justice Roberto Rivera-Soto of the New Jersey Supreme Court, whose recent actions have spurred calls for resignation or even talk about impeachment (see Gavel Grab), is the subject of a profile in the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Full post as published by The Gavel on December 28, 2010 (boomark / email).