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Cindy Pham Former IAALS Intern The Iowa Supreme Court finds itself  battling to maintain a fair and independent judiciary  as a group of Iowans, now backed by the state's Republican party, intensify their campaign for the removal of Justice David Wiggins …

Zachary Willis Director of Communications Based on Colorado’s Know Your Judge PSA—a collaboration between IAALS, the Colorado Bar Association, the Colorado Judicial Institute, and the League of Women Voters of Colorado Education Fund—the North Carolina …

Cindy Pham Former IAALS Intern Professor Mary Lynch of Albany Law School recently reviewed IAALS' three-day Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers (ETL) Conference on her Best Practices for Legal Education blog . She wrote that the "energy, ideas and information …

Cindy Pham Former IAALS Intern In Sanders County Republican Committee v. Bullock , the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down a Montana law that restricted political parties from endorsing or contributing to  judicial campaigns. The Ninth Circuit …

Janice Davidson Former Senior Advisor, Honoring Families Initiative We all were there with the same objective: to achieve increased access, trust, and confidence in the courts through significant reduction in costs and delay in civil cases. All of us, in …

Zachary Willis Director of Communications IAALS was very sad to learn that U.S. District Judge Mark R. Kravitz passed away on Sunday , September 30, after battling Lou Gehrig's disease for over a year. Just last year, Judge Kravitz was the recipient of …

Zachary Willis Director of Communications Dan Ritchie, IAALS board member and founder and former University of Denver chancellor, is often credited with bringing DU to the national stage of academia. And, as noted by the Denver Post , he can be credited …

Cindy Pham Former IAALS Intern NPR recently interviewed  IAALS Executive Director Rebecca Love Kourlis about the impact anti-retention campaigns - such as the one launched against Iowa Justice David Wiggins - has on the judiciary.  Kourlis said efforts by …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative A group known as the Oklahoma Civil Justice Council released  ratings of supreme court justices  based on how they have ruled in civil liability cases. The group is backed by the State Chamber, whose …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative An  analysis of voting in a supreme court primary election  suggests “deep racial polarization.” In the race between incumbent justice Steve Gonzalez and a challenger who neither raised money nor …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative The conservative advocacy group  Americans for Prosperity launched a campaign  to highlight the records of the three justices standing for retention in November. The campaign includes television ads …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative The executive board of the state Republican Party  voted to oppose the retention  of three supreme court justices in November. At the same time, the justices have the  support of some prominent …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative Iowans for Freedom announced plans for a  statewide “NO Wiggins” bus tour  that will oppose judicial activism and the retention of one of the seven justices who in 2009 recognized a right to same-sex …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative Though the state’s judicial elections are nonpartisan in the sense that party affiliation does not appear on the ballot, the  state Democratic Party endorsed  a state representative who is …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative A Philadelphia-based Tea Party group  vowed to challenge the retention  of two supreme court justices on the ballot in 2013 if the state’s voter ID law is not in place for the November elections. The …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative Prior to a campaign recess, the U.S. Senate  confirmed two of the 17 pending nominees  for federal district court vacancies. Fourteen of the 17 nominees received unanimous approval from the senate …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative Over the last year, the percentage of women serving on the state’s courts has  risen from 36.1 percent to 38.2 percent . Governor Malloy has contributed to this uptick, selecting women for 46 of 102 …

Zachary Willis Director of Communications Ruth Bettelheim, a marriage and family therapist, wrote in the New York Times that children’s voices are being ignored or suppressed in custody discussions and agreements. She argues that a custody arrangement …

Zachary Willis Director of Communications Jeanne Teleia, a marriage and family therapist, told the North Hawaii News that conflict in divorce is damaging to children, but that help is available to mitigate the worst and most prevalent side effects. …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative In a 2-1 ruling, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit blocked a state law barring political party endorsements of judicial candidates. While holding that the state …