Litigation

Wednesday Gavel Grab Briefs

By Peter Hardin

In these other dispatches about fair and impartial courts:

• In at least one respect — strong voter turnout — an instant runoff experiment in a North Carolina appeals court election succeeded, a Winston-Salem Journal editorial said.
• Women will hold a majority of four out of seven seats on the North Carolina Supreme Court for the first time, according to a Greensboro News-Record editorial.
• Texas ought to switch to a non-partisan election system for choosing judges, given the “partisan dirty work” that was carried out under the current system on Election Day, an Amarillo Globe-News editorial suggested.
• A plea agreement that ended the federal prosecution of terror suspect Omar Khadr at Guantanamo Bay “is not a legal victory anyone can feel proud about,” a New York Times editorial, entitled “Warped justice,” said. Read about the plea in Gavel Grab.
• Challenger Charlie Wiggins, a former appeals court judge, took the lead in a close race with incumbent Justice Richard Sanders for the Washington Supreme Court, but final results were not yet available, the Spokesman-Review reported.

Full post as published by The Gavel on November 10, 2010 (boomark / email).