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It's Time for John Roberts to Speak Up: Study

President Donald Trump's attacks on federal judges and the declining public confidence in the U.S. Supreme Court suggest it's time for Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. to become a more aggressive and visible advocate for judicial independence, three political science scholars contend in a new study.
9 minute read

Daily Business Review

Dissatisfied House Panel Takes Aim at North Florida Judge

A key House panel used a judge accused of once throwing his law firm's clients "under the bus," and whose case has awaited action from the Florida Supreme Court for more than a year, to highlight the chamber's dissatisfaction with how judicial wrongdoing is handled.
8 minute read

Daily Business Review

Commercial Litigator Tapped for Seat on Palm Beach Circuit Bench

A Boca Raton litigator was selected for a Palm Beach Circuit Court judgeship, and other judicial vacancies will be filled soon.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

First Department's David Saxe Leaving Bench for Morrison Cohen

The prolific state appeals court judge said he was impressed with the midsized firm.
11 minute read

New York Law Journal

House Democrats Slam Trump's Tweets on Federal Judiciary

At a hearing Tuesday, discussion of Donald Trump's comments overshadowed other issues before the House Judiciary Committee, including camera and audio broadcast of Supreme Court and the need to improve and lower costs of PACER.
7 minute read

New York Law Journal

Remark on Judiciary Has Familiar Tone

By | February 14, 2017
Inasmuch as history is a powerful teacher and in light of the recently-twittered tensions concerning the operation of the judicial branch of government, it might be well to consider Andrew Jackson's reputed comment about the "so-called" co-equal branch, rendered after an important early case and crisis in 1832.
3 minute read

Daily Report Online

Challenge to $35M Six Flags Verdict Tests Limits of Premises Liability

Georgia Supreme Court justices posed a pragmatic question to lawyers arguing over a $35 million verdict for a teen brutally beaten outside Six Flags Over Georgia: How far can someone flee from a menace before the liability runs out for the business where the trouble started?
7 minute read

Texas Lawyer

6 Candidates Trump Wants to Place on the Fifth Circuit Set for Vetting

President Donald Trump is wasting no time making a big impact on the Texas federal judiciary as a special committee is beginning the process of interviewing at least six of his candidates for two seats on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
15 minute read

New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 16-134

By | February 14, 2017
A full-time court attorney-referee may not work part-time as a real estate agent.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 16-122

By | February 14, 2017
Provided he/she can be fair and impartial, a judge may preside in cases involving an attorney who represented his/her third-degree relative on other matters. Disclosure is not required.
7 minute read

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