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Judicial Follies – Case law hall of fameUkiah Daily JournalTrinidad-Aquino, 259 F.3d 1140, 1146 9th Cir.2001 drunk-driving-resulting-in-bodily-injury is a gentle crime id. at 1147 Kozinski, J., …and more View full post on Injury Law News RSS feed

In a courtroom electric with pride from colleagues on the bench and leaders of the Filipino legal community, California chief justice nominee Tani Cantil-Sakauye was confirmed Wednesday by the Commission on Judicial Appointments. If further confirmed by the electorate in November, she will become the 28th leader of the state’s judicial branch. Cantil-Sakauye, whose parents [...]

Indiana Right to Life Inc. has lost a second round in its challenge to an Indiana ethics rule that prohibits judges from identifying their views on abortion. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed on a technicality a lower court that upheld the state’s Code of Judicial Conduct, which bars judges and candidates in [...]

In the last two years, at least 21 Georgia judges have been disciplined publicly by the state’s Judicial Qualifications Commission or have stepped down from the bench amid allegations of unethical conduct. Commission Chairman Benjamin F. Easterlin IV suggested that publicity highlighting the JQC’s involvement in several high-profile judicial resignations may have emboldened attorneys and [...]

Report: Judicial spending doubles in last decadeThe Associated PressThe report was prepared by the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law, the nonpartisan organization Justice at Stake in …and more » View full post on law – Google News

msnbc.com Projected Latino Prominence Should Play Greater Role in Lifetime Judicial …Huffington Post (blog)Given its mission to promote the civil rights of Latinos in the United States through the legal system, MALDEF has generally taken a public position in …Shariah comes to the Supreme CourtCanada Free PressOrrin's gay litmusSalt Lake Tribune (blog)Fiorina opposes Kagan for [...]

Judges are nervously watching Yolo County, Calif., where local leaders are considering whether to stop providing county-funded benefits to Superior Court jurists, potentially making it the first county in the state to rescind judicial benefits since state legislation addressed the issue in 2009. Judges’ groups are pleading with county leaders not to trigger a domino [...]

Attorney Josh Markus will urge delegates at the ABA’s annual meeting in San Francisco this week to officially encourage financial products and practices education and training for judges in the U.S. and abroad. The proposal is one of 35 resolutions up for debate, including a proposal that would urge state-level governments to eliminate all legal [...]

Three judicial nominees to federal courts in Washington, D.C., faced little opposition when they appeared for their confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. Though even noncontroversial nominees have stalled in the full Senate, the hearing is a good sign for President Barack Obama as he tries to fill four vacancies on Washington’s [...]

Five months after the New York Court of Appeals handed judges a partial victory in their 11-year battle for a pay raise, a group of judges sued the state last week, insisting they are entitled to $51 million set aside in last year’s budget for judicial compensation. However, a spokesman for the governor said the [...]