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By Anne Skove, Esq.

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Last Entry: March 25, 2011 at 00:00:00

The Rest of the Story

Posted on April 04, 2009
With apologies to the late Paul Harvey, we bring you the "rest of the story" about court administration in Cobb County, Georgia. Recall that the former court administrator was released from his position (one way or the other) after lewd details surfaced...

Talking of Michelangelo

Posted on April 03, 2009
Holy Moses! People bicker about the placement (or not) of the Ten Commandments in courthouses, but this is the first time we've heard about someone who despised Moses. In Massachusetts, a 97-year-old reproduction of Michelangelo's sculpture was destroyed by a man who apparently had a beef with the old testament lawgiver, sending the law librarian into fits...

Beverly Hills Papers at NKU

Posted on April 03, 2009
The nation's third-deadliest fire and harbinger of the class action landscape we know today happened at the Beverly Hills Supper Club in northern Kentucky. Now, Stan "The Man" Chelsey's case-related papers will reside at Northern Kentucky University's Steely Library...

Stimulating

Posted on April 02, 2009
Need courthouse money? Federal projects around the country will benefit (hopefully) from stimulus money. Here are a few: Davenport, Iowa, seeks money to improve its federal courthouse. See Harkin: Federal Courthouse in Davenport to See Stimulus Money, Quad-City Times (April 1, 2009)...

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State Court Administration News

Posted on April 01, 2009
Across the River: Effective April 3, Jason Nemes will no longer be state court administrator of Kentucky. See Top State Court Administrator Resigns, Linda B. Blackford, Herald-Leader (March 14, 2009). TGIF in the Hawkeye State: Iowa courts will close several Fridays in a row...

Where Angels Fear to Tread

Posted on April 01, 2009
Rushing to the courthouse? Worried you won't make it to your arraignment in time? Steal a car! No, seriously, don't try this at home. And anyway, the person who did this says he had custody of the car fair and square, having paid someone (he knows not who) $10 to use it...

Pity the Fool

Posted on April 01, 2009
Court-o-rama spent March eating bon bons on the couch, mourning the demise of f/k/a, and hunting and gathering new court stuff. This is a blog about the courts, after all. Now we are fresh as daisies and twice as snarky! Who knew that our readers would keep reading anyway? Our numbers (except for that week of inexplicable and probably erroneous zeroes) kept the same or higher for most of the month...

Vacay-O-Rama

Posted on March 02, 2009

Irresistible

Posted on February 26, 2009
We could not resist this headline from Malaysia: Bite, Kiss, Bash at Courthouse, Christina Tan, The Star (February 24, 2009).

Jury Wrangling

Posted on February 23, 2009
Lots of good jury stuff from all over this week! Jury selection goes Supreme as the Court hears Rivera v. Illinois (07-9995). Ah, Illinois! The Land o' Lincoln is second only to Louisiana in so many things. This case of the improperly seated juror will (hopefully!) answer a host of questions, including what error is, what the effects of structural error is, misc...

Economy Down = Crime Up?

Posted on February 20, 2009
Martha and the Vandellas experienced a heat wave. Everyone today wonders whether the bad economy wave will cause a crime wave. The answer: it depends on what type of crime. Not all crime waves are equal. Leading researchers say some types of crimes are sparked by economic downturn, but proceed with caution when describing the cause and effect...

Where the Sun Don't Shine

Posted on February 19, 2009
We thought solar power needed, well, sunlight. Let's hope for their sake that Saginaw, MIchigan, has enough of the light stuff to keep a solar courthouse running. If we were they, we'd hold out for a windmill or install one of those exercise rooms where the treadmills are hooked up to generators...

Crowded Big House

Posted on February 18, 2009
Like the curse of winning Best New Artist at the Grammys, some laws seem like a popular idea yet don't stand the test of time. That's the case with California's famous 3 strikes law. Once upon a time, this seemed to some like a coherent and predictable way to sentence offenders and appease a worried public...

Courthouse Courthouse fo-Fourthouse

Posted on February 09, 2009
There are Cool Names (Ava, Salome), Best Exotic Baby Names: New, Historical, Ancient, Mystical (Arion, Elan), a Bible, Queer Baby Names, Irish and Japanese baby names, a wizard, and Great Books names (Atticus, Beckett, Esme). Too bad there's not a baby name book for courthouses, too...

Video Never Killed Anybody

Posted on February 09, 2009
First we heard that the revolution would be televised. Then we heard that video killed the radio star. So which is it? What, exactly, does TV do to courts? We're going to say: relax! Someone, somewhere, will play the O.J. card. The country started watching the O...

You've Got Mail, and The Sheriff Wants to See It

Posted on February 03, 2009
When must court e-mail be turned over? What if the local sheriff asks to see them? This is the situation in Maricopa County, where Sheriff Joe Arpaio wants access to e-mails between court employees and a judge regarding the sheriff's limitations on visitation hours for inmates...

Noted

Posted on February 02, 2009
Jury trial innovations are like lottery winnings. Everybody (almost) wants them, but what do we do with them once we win? Put it in the bank? Retire early? See the world? Pay off the bills? Good question! So glad we asked. In Maryland, not knowing what to do with juror notes to the judge has led to a possible retrial -- for the third time...

Skeleton in the Courthouse

Posted on February 01, 2009
Is there a skeleton in your courthouse? Or under it? In beautiful Rockbridge County, Virginia (home of W&L Law, for which we have a soft spot) a skeleton was found during excavations for a new courthouse. Luckily, Virginia is buried under many talented (and still living) archeologists! A Radford professor has determined that the skeleton is that of a 20-something-ish woman from the 1800s...

There But for the Grace of God

Posted on January 31, 2009
Ahh, Facebook -- it helps you reconnect with freaks from your past, it lets the world know every blooming thing about your life, and you can waste an entire day playing those stupid games! (So we hear.) It can also get you booted from jury service. Now before you go getting any ideas, hear this: jury service (NOT "duty," sorry) is an important part of citizenship...

Fewer Jurors, Less Pay

Posted on January 30, 2009
When jurors (famously underpaid) take a pay cut, you know times are bad. New Mexico Chief Justice Edward Chavez proposed altering juror pay from $7.50/hour to $40/day. He also asked state legislature to repeal a statute guaranteeing parties the right to a jury trial in certain magistrate court cases...

War on Drugs: 0, Defendant: 1

Posted on January 30, 2009
How often is a defendant acquitted of a drug charge...when the amount in question is 15 pounds of marijuana? Personal consumption, said the jury, who shook the defendant's hand after the trial was over. Then they all went out and bought extra-large bags of pork rinds...

Renaming Second Street

Posted on January 29, 2009
Once upon a time, our hometown and stomping grounds thought it would be clever to re-name Second Street "Pete Rose Way." Soon we learned the reasoning behind naming people after they're dead: they can screw up if they're still alive. And Mr...

Right On

Posted on January 29, 2009
How much do we love being right? Let us count the ways. Do we love saying "Toldya so?" Does July need a sky of blue? Turns out we were right when we said voter fraud is a mostly unfounded fear. See Only One Voter Fraud Case Found, Kimball Perry, Cincinnati Enquirer (January 27, 2009)...

Ledbetter Bested

Posted on January 29, 2009
Forging pellmell into the realm of common sense, President Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act today, his very first bill. We were lucky enough to go to grade school with girls who wore pro-ERA t-shirts, but that, we do not need reminding, was a looooooong time ago...

Camcourter

Posted on January 26, 2009
We've seen Paris and Nicky try farm life, people trying to sing and dance, and 24-7 coverage of space. Cameras in the courts -- what, if anything, would they change? Cameras can be used to try to turn the tables; just ask the governor of Illinois. He wants cameras, but no trial...

Probate Reform

Posted on January 23, 2009
This time of year, everyone is turning over a new leaf. Whether it's the inauguration, the Year of the Ox, or fresh and (as-yet) still unbroken New Year's resolutions, everyone is trying to better themselves and renew their surroundings. We've written before about Connecticut's probate court troubles...

Friday Sleb Court Roundup

Posted on January 23, 2009
Still smarting from our Oscar(R) snub (evidently we have to prove we've been in some type of movie!), here's this week's episode... Slebs behaving well! When was the last time you heard good custody case news, much less good sleb custody case news? Kelly Rutherford (yeah, we had to IMDB her, too!) and her estranged husband were praised by a judge for their conduct during a recent hearing...

Event-full

Posted on January 22, 2009
Stuck in January? Tired of carving ice sculptures? Looking for something court-related to do? Court-o-rama has all the answers! Hmmm, anything that must be amended 700 times in a 22-year time span should probably go back to the drawing board. Such is life for the US sentencing guidelines...

Volunteer

Posted on January 18, 2009
MLK Day has become a day of service. Courts are filled with public servants of one sort or another -- judges, prosecutors, public defenders, court employees, and others. Courts count on volunteers to provide many services. Here's a look at some of the important contributions of volunteers: CASA/GAL: According to National CASA, over 59,000 advocates serve 954 programs...

Weekend Sleb Court Roundup

Posted on January 17, 2009
Ahh, the weekend, when one can spend time carving ice sculptures on one's lawn or stay cozy inside with scoop du jour! It's not a crime to have fabulous hair, be too skinny, or remake Freaky Friday. But if you're on probation and forget to change your address, uh-oh...

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