The Association's Commission
on Judicial Selection and Retention evaluates judicial candidates to help voters make decisions about candidates for judicial office.
When a vacancy occurs before the expiration of any term of office in the Supreme Court or the court of appeals or among the district judges, the Governor shall appoint a justice or judge from among three nominees selected for such individual vacancy by the Commission
on Judicial Selection.
James Sample, who does some of the best legal work
on judicial selection mechanisms, has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming Depaul Law Review).
A Web site sponsored by the American Judicature Society, which has compiled comprehensive information
on judicial selection processes in each of the fifty states and the District of Columbia.
Week ahead: retention elections for NC appellate courts; Texas AG can get special 3 - judge courts to hear challenges to state laws; another TX interim study
on judicial selection; broadcasting TN Supreme Court hearings online; mandate veterans courts in every CA Superior Court; guns in IL courthouses but not courtrooms
Billy Corriher is senior researcher at the Institute for Southern Studies in Durham, North Carolina, where his work includes a focus
on judicial selection, voting rights, and the courts in North Carolina.
Minnesota's Commission
on Judicial Selection has 49 members, with 27 appointed by the governor and 22 appointed by the Minnesota Supreme Court.
The new Commission
on Judicial Selection will have 17 members, the same number of members as the expired commission, and 11 previous members who still had time left in their terms will serve on the new panel.
Not exact matches
Here's Aaron Frazier from the Monroe County Democratic Committee
Judicial Selection Committee
on the importance of Family Court:
During the
judicial primary elections September 12, Brooklyn Democratic voters seemed to base their
selections for Civil Court judge primarily
on gender; immune, apparently, to an ongoing squabble over the process for selecting the nominees, who are virtually guaranteed election in November given the borough's Democratic tilt.
In a 2000 report, the ABA Commission
on State
Judicial Selection Standards warned of the «alarming increase in efforts by special interests to influence the outcome of judicial elections through both financial contributions and attack campaigning
Judicial Selection Standards warned of the «alarming increase in efforts by special interests to influence the outcome of
judicial elections through both financial contributions and attack campaigning
judicial elections through both financial contributions and attack campaigning.»
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On an application for
judicial review of the arbitrator's decision, no determination or
selection that the arbitrator was required to make under subsection (29) shall be overturned unless the determination or
selection was patently unreasonable.
«We have a long way to go,» acknowledges Hallett; noting that
judicial selection draws
on a legal profession «where the proportion of women at the top is disappointingly small».
If one reads the comments
on the Charleston Post and Courier's web site regarding the
Judicial Merit
Selection Commission's preliminary decision that Judge F.P. Segars - Andrews is unqualified to remain a family court judge because of her handling of a divorce case in which there was a business relationship between her husband's law partner and one -LSB-...]
Other Committee projects and priorities include revising the ABA Standards
on State
Judicial Selection, Defending the Courts / Response to Unjust Criticism, and setting national judicial st
Judicial Selection, Defending the Courts / Response to Unjust Criticism, and setting national
judicial st
judicial standards.
The
Judicial Merit
Selection Commission report
on Judge F.P. Segars - Andrews can be located here.
If loose leaf law libraries are convenient, doubtless they will come, and instead of pleasing rows of book - shelves we shall look
on piles of drawers, suggestive of drugs or deceased butterflies, but really filled with careful
selections of
judicial wisdom.
Governor Maggie Hassan signed an executive order establishing a
judicial selection commission to advise her in filling vacancies
on the state's courts.
(
judicial review arising from failures of due process in the Bar's disciplinary arrangements discovered by a report by COIC in 2012; time expired disciplinary judges — whether a tribunal «established by law» under ECHR Art. 6 and Art. 47 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights; whether Art 47 now has direct effect in UK; whether laid down
selection process of disciplinary judges had to be followed at all; whether prosecutor could partake in
selection process of disciplinary judges; whether a disciplinary judge could properly receive an undisclosed salary from the prosecutor; whether logjam in Visitorial appeals process caused unlawful delay; whether proper Art. 6 security of tenure when BSB sits
on committee (COIC) with the power to remove disciplinary judges from the «pool» at will; whether «discreditable» conduct should be defined).
Provides regardless where a court temporarily sits, the court would continue to preside
on behalf of its original jurisdiction (i.e.
judicial department,
judicial district, county, city, etc.) and the same substantive and procedural laws (e.g. governing venue, jury
selection, papers and appeals) would apply as if the court were not relocated.
Neighboring St. Clair County also hosts more than its fair share of litigation while its judges manipulate the
judicial selection system to remain
on the bench.
That plan was never formally introduced into the NJ legislature, however I did find one effort to change
judicial selection in the state, specifically focused
on the state's Supreme Court.
He served
on Federal
Judicial Selection Advisory Committee and the Burlington County
Judicial and Prosecutorial
Selection Committee.
«It is clear any efforts are meant to manipulate
judicial selection to partisan advantage, from repealing
judicial public financing to adding party labels
on judicial elections to
judicial redistricting.
He is recognized as a scholar and commentator
on judicial ethics,
judicial selection, and constitutional interpretation.
He is a past member of the Boston Bar Association Diversity Leadership Task Force, a past member of the US District Court Civil Justice Advisory Board, a past Chairman of the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts Merit
Selection Panel and a past member of the Massachusetts Supreme
Judicial Court's Working Group
on Practicing with Professionalism.
The «Call To Action» was issued by the participants in the National Summit
on Improving
Judicial Selection, held
on December 8 - 9, 2000 in Chicago, Illinois.
Contemporary
judicial selection concerns include the controversy over merit
selection of judges vs. the election of judges, the need for
judicial election reform, and the effect of the method of
judicial selection on the number of minorities and women seated
on the bench.
He was also nominated and serves
on the
Judicial Awards
Selection Committee for the Dade County Bar Association.
On Wednesday, October 18, 2017, the Colorado State Judicial Branch announced the governor's selection of Zachary Martin to fill a vacancy on the Ouray County Court, effective immediatel
On Wednesday, October 18, 2017, the Colorado State
Judicial Branch announced the governor's
selection of Zachary Martin to fill a vacancy
on the Ouray County Court, effective immediatel
on the Ouray County Court, effective immediately.
As one part of the larger O'Connor
Judicial Selection Plan, JPE programs assess judges based
on objective performance criteria, including surveys of those who work with or appear before the judge being evaluated.
The Lex Machina Copyright Litigation Report breaks down the thousands of copyright cases filed in the last 5 years to showcase how this data can be used to inform litigation strategy: from detailed analysis of different
judicial districts useful to forum planning, to timing data
on trial and injunctions that can drastically improve budgeting, as well as top parties and firms for firm marketing and outside counsel
selection.
On the theme of diversity in Canadian legal institutions (see Omar Ha Redeye's excellent piece in Slaw yesterday), in the UK the
Judicial Appointments Commission has just announced it will be running a selection exercise this summer by which it will recommend candidates for judicial appointments from «non-traditional» back
Judicial Appointments Commission has just announced it will be running a
selection exercise this summer by which it will recommend candidates for
judicial appointments from «non-traditional» back
judicial appointments from «non-traditional» backgrounds.
She has written and spoken
on a wide range of
judicial issues, particularly constitutional limits
on government, the federal nomination process and state
judicial selection.
On Monday, December 19, 2016, the Colorado State Judicial Branch announced the selection of three finalists for a vacancy on the Mesa County Cour
On Monday, December 19, 2016, the Colorado State
Judicial Branch announced the
selection of three finalists for a vacancy
on the Mesa County Cour
on the Mesa County Court.