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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 …

Natalie Anne Knowlton Advisor on Regulatory Innovation All 18 judges up for retention in Pima County Superior Court  received generally high scores  by the Arizona Commission on Judicial Performance, with most scoring higher than 85 percent in all …

Malia Reddick Former Manager, Quality Judges Initiative A circuit court judge  rejected a challenge to the ballot summary  for a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow the governor to name an additional member of the commission that nominates …

Cindy Pham Former IAALS Intern The Florida Supreme Court has recently  amended its Rules of Civil Procedure to address the discovery of electronically stored information (ESI). These amendments became effective September 1, 2012. While the amendments …

Cindy Pham Former IAALS Intern Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers Advisory Committee member, Justice Christine Durham , has been selected by the American Judicature Society to receive the Eighth Annual Dwight D. Opperman Award for Judicial Excellence . This …

Cindy Pham Former IAALS Intern LawMeets, a website that provides law students with free transactional simulations, is now offering free transactional law courses  which can be used by individual students or incorporated into law school classes.  These …

Zachary Willis Director of Communications The cast of "West Wing" has reunited to film two short web videos, urging voters to participate in nonpartisan state supreme court elections. One video specifically plugs Michigan Supreme Court candidate Bridget …

Zachary Willis Director of Communications In Check One and the Accountability Is Done: The Harmful Impact of Straight-Ticket Voting on Judicial Elections , Meryl Chertoff and Dustin F. Robinson argue that straight-ticket voting plays a pernicious role …