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Resolving Conflict in the Ohio AG's Office

Posted on May 29, 2008
How do you resolve conflict in an office whose head honcho has been tossed out amid scandal? Appoint a mediator. Ohio Governor Ted Strickland has happily astounded us all (even the Enquirer editorial staff) by appointing OSU Moritz College of Law Dean Nancy Rogers as interim attorney general...

Elected PD Problems

Posted on May 29, 2008
What kind of election-race mishaps can occur when public defenders run for office? The same kinds that happen to everyone else. No, I am not making this up just to bait the defenders (both of the public and of merit selection) out there in court-o-ramaland! See PD Candidate Files Complaint against Incumbent, Aisling Swift, Naples Daily News (May 29, 2008).

Clerks May Say I Don't to Gay Weddings

Posted on May 29, 2008
Can court employees who have some type of conscientious objection to same-sex marriages opt out of doing the work related to the process? Yes, says the San Diego County clerk, who will give employees that option. It's not clear how those saddled with the extra work (and it will be a **lot** of work, we'd love to hear from a court regarding plans to deal with the rush) feel...

Judicial Selection in Los Angeles

Posted on May 29, 2008
Everyone hates judicial elections, or some aspect of them. Court-o-rama hates them less than you do. Power to the people! But what kind of power, and which people? Two pols in L.A. took a break from screenplay-writing to dialogue about (note: we hate that phrase almost as much as we hate backroom appointments, but it sounded L...

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Law Professors Say the Darndest Things

Posted on May 28, 2008
How do you say "I'm freezing my ass off!!!" in Attic Greek? Chicago Law students are on the prowl for memorable "quotes by students, faculty and alumni of the Law School for a project [...] (and also because it's just neat to collect such quotes)...

Empathy for the Devil

Posted on May 28, 2008
Oh, my. It's happened again: another editor wrote another op-ed about the a-word. "Auckland?" "Asperger's?" "Alito?" "Activist!" Court-o-rama will be collecting a nickel every time this phrase is used in the press or by pols...

Magnetic Personality

Posted on May 25, 2008
Here's something fun to do over the long weekend: print out this list of top search words people used to find court-o-rama, cut them apart, and glue them onto magnets. Presto! Your own magnetic court-o-rama kit! court rama in 2008 o county the to judge courts probate for a of ohio new dooley tadhg florida and budget blog federal virginia does law york mediation south buffalo We're interested to see what haiku, fridge notes, or ransom note y'all can come up with using these words...

Tit for Tat in PA?

Posted on May 25, 2008
We've given the League of Women Voters (LWV) much virtual ink over the past week. Now comes a very different side of that organization: the Pennsylvania LWV is suing the state's (really, commonwealth's) former chief justice. Lest you think the LWV is limited to hosting free lunches and town hall meetings, promoting citizen involvement, educating voters (for better or for worse), and cranking out white papers, here is the story...

Less Frisky in Washington State

Posted on May 24, 2008
When can a person be frisked in Washington state? Not too often, it turns out. The state's court of last resort held that evidence was obtained during an illegal frisk and should be suppressed, and reversed the defendant's conviction. The Washington state constitution uses the U...

Blog of the Week(end): Archive Edition

Posted on May 24, 2008
Somehow (because we never made one up, is why) there never has been a specific Blog of the Week(end) tag, so these get filed under various categories. That makes it hard to remember where we've pointed folks from week(end) to week(end). Honestly, this week(end) we're not sure where the blogs end and where our minds begin...

Fen-Phen Phun: Judge Is Poster Boy for Mass Tort Education

Posted on May 24, 2008
Anyone following the federal trial of the fen-phen lawyers has read that Circuit Judge Bamberger admits to being "embarrassed" that he relied on Stan "The Man" Chesley for advice during the settlement process. Judge Bamberger and others like you...

Judicial Selection Town Hall Meeting: The Wrap-Up

Posted on May 22, 2008
A small group discussion with fearless facilitator Darrell Miller from UC Law, involved the question of what makes a good judge. Goodness, according to our members, encompassed knowledge, experience, morals, impartiality, apolitical-ness, and following the law...

Judicial Selection in Ohio: More Fun Than American Idol!

Posted on May 21, 2008
Next up at the town hall meeting on judicial independence was magistrate Kathy King. Her tale of running for office (particularly the party nomination part) struck fear into all hearts present. Although Ohio's judicial elections are supposedly nonpartisan, the parties are involved in choosing nominees...

Judicial Selection in Ohio: Common Cause's Cause

Posted on May 18, 2008
Next up at the town hall meeting on judicial independence was Bill Woods state chair of Common Cause. Mr. Woods gave a brief history of merit selection efforts in the Buckeye State. In the late 1980s, while the rest of the world mourned the breakup of Twisted Sister, interested parties were busy getting merit selection on the ballot...

Blog of the Week(end): f/k/a

Posted on May 17, 2008
Haiku, tulips-r-us, local news from non-NYC New York, oh, and lawyer stuff: that's what f/k/a is made of. The layout is an amazing thing, sort of a text/graphic illustration of a train of thought that would make e.e. proud. Small avatar-esque pictures (a photo of a mug reading "kill all the lawyers!", a baseball player, ice skaters, a parking meter...

The History of Everything! Judicial Selection in Ohio

Posted on May 16, 2008
Following Charles Gibson (in talking head form) at yesterday's forum was UC Law professor Michael Solimine (live and in person!). Solimine has read and given more thought to the Ohio constitutional conventions than most people, claiming "It's not as boring as it sounds!" (To the assembly of wonks, it probably did not sound boring at all!) He is the author of The False Promise of Judicial Elections in Ohio, Capital University Law Review (2001)...

More on Ideas: Naughty and Nice

Posted on May 15, 2008
The second half of Jeremy Waldron's review of Anthony Lewis's biography of the First Amendment book (see previous post) dealt with the protection of hate speech. Why protect this, asks Waldron? It's all well and good for noble attorneys to vow to "hate the speaker, protect the speech," but shouldn't we consider the harm done by such speech? One step away from that lefty soapbox and we've got families moving away from neighborhoods, children afraid to go to school, employees facing intolerable situations every day...

You Can Pick Your Friends: Judicial Selection in Ohio

Posted on May 15, 2008
Today we walked up Clifton hill to UC to catch a town hall meeting on judicial selection. The local League of Women Voters and the League's imPACT program put the meeting together. What a great group of people! Truly a microcosm: students (both there for credit, and just for kicks), academics, interested citizens, a former judge, and even a blogger...

The Surreal Language of Searches

Posted on May 14, 2008
We're always amused (sure sign we need to get out more) by the search queries leading people (do robots use search terms, too?) to court-o-rama: clementina verge doorbell ditch rama org tadhg dooley court o rama blog how to pronounce oyez crafty trilobite crazy tort cases See also What Brings You to a Joint Like This? David Giacalone, f/k/a (May 14, 2008).

The Superstore of Ideas: Bush, Goya, Eden, and So Much More!!!

Posted on May 14, 2008
We once had a friend from Canada who was amazed by the number of choices at the Winn-Dixie in Williamsburg, Virginia. Twenty different brands of canned beans! Ten brands of dried beans! Several more types of bean dip! "Oh my," he would say. Canadian supermarkets didn't have this array...

With Bells On: Judicial Independence Forum

Posted on May 13, 2008
This Thursday the local League of Women Voters, UC's Taft Research Center, and Common Cause will host a town hall meeting on judicial independence. Speakers include Prof. Michael Solimine of UC Law, William K. Woods of CommonCause Ohio, and Kathleen King of the Hamilton County Domestic Relations Court...

List in Our Heart

Posted on May 12, 2008
Here's a list of lists, in no particular order: Classes My Top-Tier Law School Should Have Offered as Warnings about the Profession, E. Noakes, McSweeney's Internet Tendency (April 16, 2008). We hear there's a forthcoming list of clinical programs, too...

Jury Selection: So Simple Even a Magistrate Can Do It!

Posted on May 12, 2008
This morning the SCOTUS ruled that federal magistrates may preside over jury selection if defense counsel (as opposed to the actual defendant) consents. Justice Kennedy wrote the opinion: "If the parties consent, federal magistrate judges may preside over the voir dire and selection of prospective jurors in a felony criminal trial...

Shout Out to Moms

Posted on May 11, 2008
This rainy morning we write from inside a baby corral, where a 2-year-old is trying to build the "Pancake Home" out of blocks as his little sister tries to destroy it, and he retaliates by trying to hit her on the head with a toy cash register...

Just Don't Answer Their E-Mail: Combatting Corruption in Nigeria

Posted on May 11, 2008
Proving our theory that examining problem-solving court specialties leads one directly to the top seemingly unsolvable problems of the day, now comes the anti-corruption court. Corruption is the result of the lack of civil society, the breakdown of one or more of the estates (usually the fourth, but who's counting), and vast differences in the distribution of wealth (though not necessarily poverty per se, say researchers)...

Sleb Alert

Posted on May 10, 2008
1. The Cruise of a Lifetime Got summer plans? How about going on The Nation Cruise? Judging from the full-page ad in the New York Review of Books, we believe that the Jackson 5 were all unavailable. How else to explain the double-bill of Jesse Jackson and Jackson Browne? Can Victoria Jackson be far behind? The Jackson 2 are the Special Guests...

Simple Injustice

Posted on May 10, 2008
Thanks to Simple Justice for elaborating on our recent post about New York court employees. Having spent over a decade working with court administrators (as well as judges, none of whom were escorted on the gilded divans of which Simple Justice speaks, at least not to our knowledge), we have to remind ourselves that this is a forgotten demographic...

Blog of the Week(end): Commentaries by Bea V. Larsen

Posted on May 09, 2008
If there is a warmer, more inviting read online than Bea Larsen's Commentaries, we haven't seen it. Bea Larsen is a mediator, lawyer, and stellar person to boot. Her blog (though "blog" seems like an ugly word to describe something so very nice) is about mediation and much more...

For the Want of a Key

Posted on May 09, 2008
The Boston Globe's Jonathan Saltzman always has his finger on the pulse of the Massachusetts courts. This week is no exception. See Courthouse Feud Erupts over Bathroom Key, Jonathan Saltzman, Boston Globe (May 9, 2008). But the prosecutor claims the dispute is not a "feud" and that it is not simply over a key...

A Sip of COLA for NY Court Employees

Posted on May 08, 2008
In the private sector (so we hear) getting a 6% raise is what they do when they're too lazy to fire you. In the public sector (as we well know) it's considered a great honor. Guess how honored New York Unified Court System employees feel right now? Their union just negotiated a 4-year agreement, retroactive to April 2007...

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