While delivering the State of the Judiciary Address for the State of Georgia in 2008, said, "The judge often finds that the law is not always entirely clear. And 'truth' is often an elusive concept. Some cases over which we preside are magnets for the press and public. In extreme cases, a judge may be vilified or even threatened." As the first chief justice of Georgia, Sears must know that those words have a significant historical impact on her state and its history. As a holder of an LL.M degree, Sears is an internationally-recognized jurist in the study of law. Even though in most countries-including the United States-attorneys are not required to hold an LL.M degree as a prerequisite to practice law, there are lawyers, like Sears, who go the "extra mile...
The new chief justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court wants to reduce burdensome and expensive pre-trial wrangling, partially level the playing field between plaintiffs and defendants and let judges punish lawyers who try to bury their opponents in a flurry of certain kinds of worthless paperwork. Chief Justice Menis Ketchum began a one-year rotation as chief justice on Jan. 1. The plainspoken former trial lawyer was elected to a 12-year term on the court in 2008. He turns 69 at the end of the month but keeps an intense schedule. Ketchum commutes from Huntington but nonetheless arrives at his Capitol office at 6 or 7 a.m. two days a week. The other three days it takes him until 9:30 a.m. to get to work but hes already gone to work out at the Huntington High Intensity Training Center...
Among his goals was to curb what he considered the excesses of the Warren Court, particularly in the area of criminal justice, and in this he was quite successful.3 Additionally, his efforts to limit the expansion of individual rights, check First Amendment protections, enhance federal judicial power, and strengthen the position of the state vis-à-vis the national government, have led to claims that he, must be counted as one of the giants of American law, because he has presided over and greatly contributed to a Supreme Court that has radically revised previous understandings of the Constitution. Despite conventional wisdom that the Internet has achieved primacy over (or at least rivals) traditional sources of news, Gallup polling data as recent as December 2006 indicates that more th...
MADISON - After a tumultuous year in which one justice was accused of trying to choke another, it's clear that the Wisconsin Supreme Court needs to change, and one change the court's seven members might want to consider is allowing the public to watch them deliberate cases, the chief justice said Tuesday. Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson released a memo that included several proposed changes to the court, and the high court was expected to discuss her ideas during an open administrative conference on Sept. 15.
John Roberts, the chief justice of the United States, deals with more than just dull legal arguments. He also is a grammarian. He demonstrated this additional skill in the recent case AT&T v. Federal Communications Commission. AT&T had insisted that it could refuse to produce certain documents. The FCC's statute on Freedom of Information grants exemption if a disclosure "could reasonably be expected to constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy." The Congress has defined "person" to include a corporation, so AT&T was exempt. Right?
William Ray Price Jr., chief justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri, delivered the State of the Judiciary address Wednesday during a joint session of the General Assembly in Jefferson City. Click here to read the full text of Price's speech. Here are excerpts from his address:
Althouse presents her personal reflections on Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist. Chief Justice Rehnquist revived federalism in his early years on the Court and led the Court through an elaborate and conscientious struggle about how the Court might enforce the benefits of federalism.
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