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Friday, November 14, 2008
Courts - More on "U.S. Supreme Court Is Asked to Fix Troubled West Virginia Justice System" [Updated]
In this ILB entry from Oct. 12th, a story by Adam Liptak of the NY Times is quoted. It begins:
The justice system in West Virginia is broken and the United States Supreme Court should take steps to fix it, according to a pile of briefs in three cases awaiting the court’s attention.Today, according to this entry from SCOTUSblog, the U.S. Supreme Court accepted the first of those cases for review, Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Company, Inc., et al, where the issue is whether a judge’s failure to recuse himself from a case in which he received substantial campaign donations from one of the parties violates the Due Process rights of the other party. The entry goes on to provide links to the opinion below, the petition for certiorari, etc.
Here is a link to related ILB entries.
[Updated 11/15/08] "High Court Tackles Campaign Financing" is the title of this story this morning on NPR:
Weekend Edition Saturday, November 15, 2008 · The Supreme Court has agreed to review two cases related to campaign financing. In one, a West Virginia judge did not recuse himself from a case involving a contributor to his election campaign. In the other, a group wanted to advertise its anti-Hillary Clinton movie without making those ads comply with campaign finance laws. NPR's Nina Totenberg reports.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on November 14, 2008 02:16 PM
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