Litigation

Wednesday Gavel Grab Briefs

By Peter Hardin

In these other dispatches about fair and impartial courts:

• Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan wrote her first opinion, siding with a credit card company in a bankruptcy case, and as is typically the case for a freshman justice, it was not a dramatic or remarkably important case, the Los Angeles Times reported.

• Investigative articles in the Philadelphia Daily News examined the “overburdened” Philadelphia Immigration Court and the stress suffered by immigration court judges.

• Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy said the Senate would act quickly to confirm judicial nominees who were blocked at the end of 2010, according to a Washington Times article.

Full post as published by The Gavel on January 12, 2011 (boomark / email).