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National Law Journal

Trump Sets Prime-Time Supreme Court Announcement

Trying to suss out how closely President Donald Trump's potential U.S. Supreme Court nominees are to the late Justice Antonin Scalia is not, of course, an exact science. Three recent reports, however, attempt to do just that—weighing the "Scalia-ness" of the next high-court nominee. Trump said he will announce his pick Tuesday night.
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New York Law Journal

Correction

By | January 30, 2017
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New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 16-130

By | January 30, 2017
Where a judge's spouse, as director of government relations, helps select a law firm to handle lobbying and works directly with the law firm's lobbyists, the judge is disqualified, subject to remittal, from matters involving that law firm. The obligation lasts for the duration of the attorney-client relationship between the spouse's employer and the law firm, but terminates when the relationship ends.
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Daily Report Online

New Justices Recuse From Fights Over State Power

The Georgia Supreme Court played a bit of musical chairs this past week as Nels Peterson and Britt Grant bowed out of matters linked to their prior work as lawyers for the state.
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New Jersey Law Journal

With Bench Near Full Strength, Eyes Turn to Reform Shakeout

New Jersey's Superior Court is as close to full strength as it has been in numerous years, though it's unclear at this point how the judiciary will portion out 20 new judgeships created to deal with the state's new criminal justice reforms.
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Texas Lawyer

Disgraced Ex-Waco Judge Has Been Punished Enough, US Judicial Committee Rules

Even though it previously ruled than an investigation into sexual harassment allegations against former U.S. District Judge Walter Smith was warranted, a Judicial Conference Committee has decided that no further punishment of the disgraced Waco jurist is neccesary because he retired from the bench. Smith was originally punished by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit's Judicial Council in 2015 after they concluded he made unwanted sexual advances against a female court employee in 1998. The Fifth Circuit ordered Smith to undergo sensitivity training and suspended his new case assignments for a year.
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Daily Report Online

11th Circuit: Murderer of LaFayette Teenager Can Sue for Right to Seek Parole

Ruling she did not exceed the statute of limitations, a north Alabama woman whose death sentence was commuted can proceed with her lawsuit challenging an Alabama law enacted in 2003 aimed at retroactively preventing her parole.
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Texas Lawyer

'I Beg You to Recuse Me': Anna Nicole Smith Judge Finally Gets His Wish

The case that put him in the spotlight had become a trial for him, said Houston probate Judge Mike Wood.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Trio of Millionaires Tops Trump SCOTUS Shortlist

The financial disclosure reports filed in 2015 by Neil Gorsuch, William Pryor Jr., and Thomas Hardiman reflect that each judge holds investments valued at more than $1 million.
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Daily Report Online

Bill Introduced to Re-redesign Judicial Watchdog Panel

Members of the Georgia House of Representatives on Wednesday introduced a bill that would, for the second time in a year, dramatically reconfigure the state Judicial Qualifications Commission — expanding its membership and splitting it into two panels: one to investigate judicial ethical infractions and a second to adjudicate them.
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