Litigation

Tuesday Gavel Grab Briefs

By Peter Hardin

In these other dispatches about fair and impartial courts:

• The Senate confirmed Monday three federal judges, according to an article in The Hill. They were Sue Myerscough and James Shadid for the Central District of Illinois and Anthony Battaglia for the Southern District of California.

• “Sonia Sotomayor on Dating, Deciding, and Being the Newest Supreme Court Justice” is the headline of an article in The Atlantic about Justice Sotomayor’s remarks before an audience in Chicago.

• From the New York Daily News: “A federal judge overseeing a kosher food vendor’s lawsuit against the Mets recused himself from the case Tuesday apparently because the plaintiff’s lawyer spotted him wearing a Mets hat outside the courthouse.”

Full post as published by The Gavel on March 08, 2011 (boomark / email).