By Marcia Coyle | May 14, 2022
"I wonder how long we're going to have these institutions at the rate we're undermining them," Thomas said.
By Jason Grant | May 13, 2022
According to the judicial-conduct commission's administrator, there was no evidence of theft committed by the judge. The commission noted the judge previously had been disciplined twice, including for sending a letter to a criminal judge and a district attorney in which he "vouch[ed] for the defendant's character, referring repeatedly to his judicial office."
National Law Journal | News|Q&A
By Avalon Zoppo | May 13, 2022
"It is law schools who are not warning students about misbehaving judges, not collecting and reporting data on students' negative clerkship experiences, and not supporting mistreated clerks when they circle back with the law school to report on their negative experiences," Shatzman said.
By The Associated Press | May 12, 2022
Gabe Roth, executive director of the court transparency group Fix the Court, said calling the court the most transparent branch is just wrong. "That's a laughable statement, and Chief Justice Roberts knows it," Roth said in an email, calling some of the court's practices "galling."
By Marcia Coyle | May 11, 2022
The House Judiciary Committee voted 22-16 along party lines to send the bill to the full House after more than six hours of debate.
By Jane Wester | May 10, 2022
Federal legislation to toughen judges' financial disclosure requirements recently passed both houses of Congress.
By Jasmine Floyd | May 10, 2022
"The fact a law firm should be able to turn around and say 'this was a loser case from the outset and there was no way to legally win it to defend themselves', is something that feels not quite right, and what I think makes the case quirky," ethics expert Jan Jacobowitz said.
By Adolfo Pesquera | May 9, 2022
While handcuffed, the lawyer called his son, who is also an attorney, and asked that he come to court to represent him. When the son arrived he immediately went to talk to his father, but was confronted by the bailiff and they began to have an exchange.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Robert W. Stanko | May 6, 2022
This unprecedented leak represents a grave violation of the court's internal operating procedures and the cloak of confidentiality that surrounds them.
Daily Business Review | Analysis|News
By Michael A. Mora | May 6, 2022
"The reason people play the 'name game' in popular elections is because it works," said Scott Fingerhut, a judicial ethics expert at Florida International University College of Law. "Not always, but often enough. And often to unseat qualified judges."
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