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		<title>More on the &#8220;Perception&#8221; Problem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I responded to an item by the folks over at JudgesOnMerit (&#8221;Why Perception Matters&#8220;).  A closer reading turns up a number of other claims in the post that are false or misleading.  Here’s a quick debunking:
First, JudgesonMerit claims that under the plan the group supports, judges would be screened “by a non-partisan citizen panel representing the diverse spectrum [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Admission: &#8220;Merit&#8221; Selection Campaign is About Perception, Not Reality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I did a little post on the ABA’s striking admission that the whole “merit” selection campaign is based purely on “perception” – not any real evidence that elected judges are “for sale” as most “merit” selection proponents claim.  Well, it seems to have struck a nerve!
Our friends over at JudgesOnMerit – the group [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://americancourthouse.com/2010/03/08/another-admission-merit-selection-campaign-is-about-perception-not-reality.html</link>
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		<title>Soros Targeting the Euro?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As readers of AmericanCourthouse know, George Soros has helped to bankroll Justice at Stake, the group dedicated to replacing judicial elections with so-called &#8220;merit&#8221; selection.  Well, you might think that attempting to eliminate the democratic election of hundreds of judges in dozens of states would be enough to keep bazillionaire Soros busy.  Well, what ordinary humans might [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://americancourthouse.com/2010/03/08/soros-targeting-the-euro.html</link>
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		<title>Rolling the &#8220;Merit&#8221; Selection Rock up the Hill in Maryland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Voters in Maryland have twice blocked attempts to disenfranchise themselves when it comes to selecting judges. They have twice voted down proposals to end democratic judicial elections and adopt a “merit” selection system.  But the “merit” selection crowd is pushing the rock up the hill once again – this time with the help of Attorney [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://americancourthouse.com/2010/03/05/rolling-the-merit-selection-rock-up-the-hill-in-maryland.html</link>
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		<title>Another AHA! Moment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I posted an item on Bill Moyers’ PBS rant about Citizens United, calling out the lack of any proof behind his hysterical assertion that there’s now a “crooked sign hanging on every courthouse in America reading ‘Justice for Sale.’”  The Gavel Grabbers swooned, but also offered no proof to back up Moyers’ absurd [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://americancourthouse.com/2010/03/04/another-aha-moment.html</link>
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		<title>Legal Reform Victory in SC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Carter Wood, once again, is on top of the latest legal reform news - this time with his ShopFloor hat on.  Yesterday legislators in the South Carolina House overwhelmingly passed legal reform legislation in an effort to attract more business and capital investment to the state. 
For more on the state of legal reform efforts in South [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://americancourthouse.com/2010/03/04/legal-reform-victory-in-sc.html</link>
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		<title>AG Blumenthal: Lawsuits &#8220;Create Jobs&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Carter Wood over at Point of Law posted a little gem yesterday. Wood reports that Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut&#8217;s long-time attorney general and now a candidate for governor, recently made the extraordinary claim that all those lawsuits he&#8217;s filed over the years &#8220;actually create jobs.&#8221;  Well, knock me over with a feather.
For those interested in something closer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://americancourthouse.com/2010/03/04/ag-blumenthal-lawsuits-create-jobs.html</link>
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		<title>Ohio Judicial Elections: Common Sense From Ohio&#8217;s Bench</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ohio Chief Justice Thomas Moyer’s campaign to abolish democratic judicial elections has run into strong opposition from his colleagues on the state Supreme Court.  In a Columbus Dispatch article, Justice Evelyn Lundberg Stratton said judicial elections are “open and transparent” and made the common sense observation that:
“… people are smart enough and there’s enough information [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://americancourthouse.com/2010/03/03/ohio-judicial-elections-common-sense-from-ohios-bench.html</link>
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		<title>Lerach Book Cont&#8217;d</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For more on the new book, Circle of Greed, chronicling the exploits of uber-trial lawyer Bill Lerach, check out Kim Strassel&#8217;s review from yesterday&#8217;s WSJ.
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		<link>http://americancourthouse.com/2010/03/03/lerach-book-contd.html</link>
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		<title>The Rise and Fall of Lerach</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times Deal Blog has a good, extensive review of a brand new book that describes the rise and fall of trial lawyer titan, Bill Lerach.  The book&#8217;s title: Circle of Greed.
An excerpt from the review describing how Lerach began his rise to fame:
“&#8217;…Mr. Dillon and Mr. Cannon trace how&#8230;Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes &#38; [...]]]></description>
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