California’s Statewide Commission for Impartial Courts held its first public hearing this week and the results were predictable. Legal elites from the Golden State and beyond paraded before the Commission to bemoan the “threats” to judicial independence because of “special interests” and called for action to take “politics” out of the courtroom.
Former California Governor […]

California’s Commission for Impartial Courts will hold its first public “fact-finding” hearing next week reports Legal Newsline. The commissioners will hear from Ohio Chief Justice Thomas Moyer – a well-known opponent of democratic judicial elections – and view “horrifying” ads from judicial races around the country. Sounds like the “facts” have already been […]

The Washington Legal Foundation has an interesting new paper by California state Sen. Tom Harman on a class action reform bill he introduced in the state senate.
One of the many problems with class action lawsuits, Sen. Harman explains, is that after a case is won or settled, the plaintiffs’ attorney must seek out the class […]