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Supreme Court Poised to Weigh Death Penalty
Ring The eyes and the hopes of the anti-death penalty community will be on the Supreme Court April 22. For the first time in years, the justices will take up a case that holds serious promise of reversing hundreds of death sentences on constitutional grounds.
'Da Silva Moore' Goes to Washington
Attorneys representing a group of employees suing public relations company Publicis over gender discrimination claims took their e-discovery dispute with U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew Peck to the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, in Monique Da Silva Moore, et al. v. Publicis Groupe SA and MSLGroup.Judicial Watchdog Slams Ethics Rule Change
A member of the New York Commission on Judicial Conduct claims the American Bar Association's proposed revision of an ethics rule would make it unenforceable.Appeals Revisit Apprendi Language
When the Supreme Court ruled 19 months ago that jurors, rather than judges, must decide facts that increase criminal sentences, dissenting Justice Sandra Day O`Connor predicted the impact could be colossal.
Federal bench reforms fall short
The extent to which the discipline of judicial misconduct has become cloaked in confidentiality can be seen in a new batch of reforms under review by the judiciary's policy arm, the Judicial Conference of the United States. The 29 draft rules went out for public comment last year � but all public responses remain confidential.Christian group sues law schools
The Christian Legal Society is suing a half-dozen law schools nationwide, claiming that they can't deny recognition to the group based on its refusal to offer membership to homosexuals, in violation of school nondiscrimination policies.Panel Accused Of Softening Judge Ethics Rules
Accusing an American Bar Association panel of secretly watering down judicial ethics rules, the administrator of the New York Commission on Judicial Conduct has resigned in protest from an ABA advisory council.Judicial Watchdog Resigns Over ABA Panel's Change to Ethics Rules
Accusing an American Bar Association panel of secretly watering down judicial ethics rules, the administrator of the New York Commission on Judicial Conduct has resigned in protest from an ABA advisory council. In a resignation letter released Monday, Robert H. Tembeckjian objected strenuously to what he said is a plan to diminish the thrust of an ethics precept that says judges should "avoid impropriety and the appearance of impropriety."
Parties duel over recusal issue
Dueling briefs before the U.S. Supreme Court in the Proposition 8 case Hollings­worth v. Perry have revived the debate over whether two California federal judges involved in the case at earlier stages should have recused themselves.TRENDING STORIES
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