Litigation

Thursday Gavel Grab Briefs

By Peter Hardin

In these other dispatches about fair and impartial courts:

• Justice Leroy Hassell Jr. of the Virginia Supreme Court, who was the state’s first black chief justice, died at age 55, according to a Richmond Times-Dispatch article.

• On the eve of the swearing in of William Martinez, a Denver Post article reported that he will become the first immigrant to take the federal bench in Colorado. Born in Mexico City, he lawfully immigrated to Chicago as a young boy.

• A Fort Worth Star-Telegram commentary was headlined, “U.S. senators need to commit themselves to improving judicial confirmation process.”

Full post as published by The Gavel on February 11, 2011 (boomark / email).