LexPress: Jury Reform Rules Revolt
By Jesse Sunenblick
jsunenblick@judicialstudies.com
Posted: 09-05-08
Corporation Counsel Michael Cardozo raises the banner against a proposal to change the appellate process on jury selection.
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September 05, 2008
September 02, 2008
LexPosition: The Strange Case of the Silent Seal
By Jim Edwards
jimedwards123@hotmail.com
Posted 09-03-08
A journalist litigant tries to get a judge to make a ruling. Any ruling.
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August 27, 2008
In Search of Real Reform
By Jason Boog
jasonboog@judicialstudies.com
Posted 08-27-2008
The Surrogate Court has a checkered reputation. In Manhattan, three candidates are pledging to fix it. Their plans are quite different. But there's a common theme: change.
August 20, 2008
The Impossible Dream
By Jason Boog
jasonboog@judicialstudies.com
Posted 08-20-2008
A Brooklyn judicial delegate has mounted a campaign to clean up the judge picking process.
August 13, 2008
Show Me the Money
By Jesse Sunenblick
jsunenblick@judicialstudies.com
Poste: 08-13-08
Two Civil Court campaigns spar over the meaning of campaign money. One claims conniving. The other claims an innocent mistake. Both involve well-regarded Law Secretaries. Is this any way to run a judiciary?
August 08, 2008
Bashed Judges Bash Media
By Jason Boog
jasonboog@judicialstudies.com
Posted 08-08-2008
Brought together to compare notes on the current state of judge bashing, a trio of jurists on Friday engaged in a little media bashing.
August 06, 2008
Attack of the Video-Bloggers
By Jason Boog
jasonboog@judicialstudies.com
Posted 08-06-2008
Judges are accustomed to objections and exceptions. Many have even grown inured to protests on the courthouse steps. But now, a new series of complaints against a Southern District judge have taken the form of cyber-threats.
July 30, 2008
When Selection Trumps Election
By Leah Nelson
lnelson@judicialstudies.com
Posted 07-30-08
Nearly half the members of the State Supreme Court are Acting Justices who received their seats by an appointment process that is practically invisible.
July 22, 2008
Car Wars
By Leah Nelson
lnelson@judicialstudies.com
Posted 07-23-08
One Brooklyn AJ made a parking promise no one has kept. And the current AJ, with a little help from one colleague, seems to have done as much harm as good. What now?
July 17, 2008
Price Fight — Live!
By Jason Boog
jasonboog@judicialstudies.com
Posted 07-17-08
The referee in Thursday's judge salary slugfest seemed to be leaning to one side.
July 16, 2008
Price Fight
By Jason Boog
jasonboog@judicialstudies.com
Posted 07-16-08
As the judicial salary fight reaches the final rounds, both sides are on the offense. One wants you to think of judges as high-end clerks. The other wants you to think of them as altruists who gave up a corner office at some large firm. Who are you rooting for?
July 09, 2008
An Undisciplined System
By Leah Nelson
lnelson@judicialstudies.com
Posted 07-09-08
The system for adjudicating accusations of misconduct against attorneys sounds relatively fair and efficient on its face. So why does the system put such a mask on its administration?
Correction Appended
July 02, 2008
When Judges Get the Blues
By Jason Boog
jasonboog@judicialstudies.com
Posted 07-02-08
Judges are expected to be fair but firm, empathetic but efficient. But with a crushing workload and an often ungrateful public, what happens when a member of the bench reaches the breaking point? A special report on the mental health of the judiciary.
June 30, 2008
LexPress: Morgenthau Responds
By Jesse Sunenblick
jsunenblick@judicialstudies.com
Posted: 06-30-08
Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau responds to a New York Times story about a skeptical prosecutor who says he tanked a case against a man he believed to be innocent.
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BALLOT MANEUVERS
By Mark Thompson
markthomp@yahoo.com
Posted 08-27-08
With election season looming, the Appellate Division resuscitated two campaigns that had been knocked off track by a couple of Queens County Supreme Court judges.
Justice Charles Thomas rejected the petition of a candidate who sought to be listed on the ballot for the Democratic primary, apparently without even bothering to examine any of the evidence presented by either side. Thomas issued his ruling in response to an oral motion brought by a representative of a rival candidate, but didn’t hold much of a hearing, to hear the Appellate Division tell it. The judge erred, a unanimous appellate panel said, “in failing to consider any of the evidence submitted to it or to address any of the issues raised in this proceeding before making [his] determination.” In its ruling released less than three weeks before the Sept. 9 primary, the appellate panel reversed Thomas’s denial of the petition and sent the matter back to him with instructions to hold a proper hearing “forthwith” and this time, to address “all of the issues raised in this proceeding.” Matter of Richards v Board of Elections of the City of New York (August 20)
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Lexposition: Discovering a Joke
By Scott H. Greenfield
Posted 11-21-07
It's been more than 40 years since the U.S. Supreme Court enshrined the principle that due process demands true discovery. Laugh till you cry.
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