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John Lande is Professor Emeritus of the University of Missouri School of Law. Formerly, he was the Isidor Loeb Professor and former director of the LLM Program in Dispute Resolution.
He received his J.D.… MORE
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit affirmed a lower court decision that rejected a constitutional challenge to the state’s merit selection system. Opponents of the process argued that having five lawyers on the nine-member supreme… MORE
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According to a statewide poll, 47 percent of voters favor retaining the four justices standing for retention in November, while 24 percent oppose their retention and 25 percent are undecided. Poll results also show little residual anger… MORE
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The establishment of a PAC for a supreme court race may undermine the public financing program and reintroduce partisanship in judicial races, according to the court of appeals judge who is challenging an incumbent justice. The legislature… MORE
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The U.S. Senate voted to approve, by an 89-1 vote, Stephanie Rose as a U.S. district court judge. To date, President Obama has appointed 72 women to the federal bench, which is the most ever appointed by a president in a single term.… MORE
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The Utah Judicial Performance Evaluation Commission has published its evaluation reports and recommendations online. The Commission was created by statute in 2008 and undertook midterm evaluations in 2010 that were only for self-… MORE
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Writing in the Des Moines Register, Iowa Supreme Court Justice David Wiggins expressed admiration for the work of the Court, gratitude for his tenure on the bench, and the desire to prevent political campaigns from corrupting the Iowa judicial… MORE
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A group known as The Do Good Dads Against Unjust Judges is challenging the retention of three local judges. The group takes issue with the judges’ rulings in cases involving child custody, adoptions, and child abuse, among others. The group is also… MORE
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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 parallel similar e-… MORE
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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 with respect to voter choice and “… MORE