Litigation

Monday Gavel Grab Briefs

By Peter Hardin

In these other dispatches about fair and impartial courts:

• Justice Roberto Rivera-Soto of the New Jersey Supreme Court, who contended last month that the court’s current makeup  is unconstitutional and he would therefore abstain from further decisions, said in a letter he will not seek renomination in September, according to a Newark Star-Ledger article.

• North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue appointed Judge Cressie Thigpen to fill a year-long vacancy on the state Court of Appeals, although the appointee was defeated in an election bid for the same court, the Associated Press reported.

• It’s a problem some fiscally strapped states would envy: Courtroom sharing for civil cases at a regional  center in Clark County was starting, due to the addition of seven new judges through an act of the legislature, according to a Las Vegas Review-Journal article.

Full post as published by The Gavel on January 03, 2011 (boomark / email).