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How Appealing (Free subscription) | yesterday
"Chief Justice Takes to the Mound on Supreme Court Baseball Cards": law.com's Tony Mauro has this report. My earlier coverage appears at this link....
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Virgin Islands Daily News (Free subscription) | yesterday
ST. THOMAS - The Virgin Islands Bar Association has moved to disbar 40 of its members for non-payment of dues. Of the more than three dozen names appearing on the list, none of the attorneys showed up for their show cause hearing held Friday before Chief Justice of the V.I. Supreme Court Rhys Hodge and Justice Maria Cabret and Justice Ive Swan.
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Kansas City Star (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
State courts in Kansas will have to close their doors for one week each month beginning in February if the Legislature doesn't restore $8 million to the judiciary budget, Supreme Court Chief Justice Robert Davis said Friday.
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Hindu (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
NEW DELHI: Now that the elevation of Karnataka High Court Chief Justice P.D. Dinakaran to the Supreme Court has been put on hold, the transfer of Chief Justice Jasti Chelameswar from the Gauhati High Court to the Karnataka High Court has been ...
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Netizen News Brief (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Subject: txt 1st hcare - H.R. 3962, the Democrats’ health insurance reform bill, to be voted on this week by Congress , contains a provision to establish waiting lists as a mechanism to control costs. Such waiting lists have long been a characteristic – and a bane – of socialized medicine. Indeed, the Canadian Supreme Court ruled them illegal in June 2005. "Access to a waiting...
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Justice Barbara Madsen was elected Thursday by members of the state Supreme Court to be its new chief justice.
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Justice Barbara Madsen was elected Thursday by members of the state Supreme Court to be its new chief justice.
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Times of India (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Justice M S Shah of Gujarat HC may be the next chief justice of Calcutta High Court. The present incumbent, Chief Justice S S Nijjar, has been elevated to the Supreme Court.
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Democracy for New Mexico (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The Justices and staff of the New Mexico Supreme Court were saddened to learn of the passing of distinguished jurist and friend, former Chief Justice Gene E. Franchini. Justice Franchini served on the Supreme Court from November 30, 1990, until...
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The Legal Reader (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
There’s probably something pithy and sarcastic to say about this, but I’m not feeling very lowbrow today. Instead, I’ll just hope the Justice led a full life and thank him for the dedication he had to the next generation of...
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Fables of the reconstruction (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Imagine the judge's poor wife (who was in attendance) and students who had to go through this: Former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Gene Franchini died Wednesday afternoon while addressing first-year law students at the University of New Mexico. ......
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Paralegal SLO (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Some sad news to report out of the Land of Enchantment: The former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Gene Franchini died Wednesday afternoon while addressing first-year law students at the University of New Mexico. '> http://bit.ly/KC2Ca
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<B>Power and Control</B> (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
It looks like Sarah Palin may not be able to pass the Republican Abortion Litmus Test. This is a report from March of 2009. Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) recently appointed Anchorage Superior Court Judge Morgan Christen, who once served on the board of Planned Parenthood, to the state's Supreme Court, the AP/Anchorage Daily News reports. According to the AP/Daily News, Palin's selection went against...