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New York Law Journal

Simply Adding Family Court Judges Will Not Increase Access to Justice

Putting more judges on the Family Court bench is only one of the many steps required to ensure that families have timely access to justice—and it cannot succeed in a vacuum, three contributors write in a letter to the editor.
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New York Law Journal

State Judicial Group: Central NY Judge Should Be Removed After Asserting Influence to Police at Chaotic Party

The commission's cumulative decision said Oneida County Supreme Court Justice Erin Gall engaged in "a racially offensive, profane, prolonged public diatribe outside a high school graduation party."
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The Recorder

Former California Supreme Court Justice Edward Panelli Dies at 92

The son of Italian immigrants, Edward Panelli was urged at an early age to become a lawyer. His judicial career spanned every level of California's judiciary and concluded with a career as a neutral.
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Daily Business Review

Florida Judge Wanted: Nominating Commission Seeks Broward Judicial Replacement

The Seventeenth Circuit Judicial Nominating Commission has been asked to provide Gov. Ron DeSantis with nominees to fill a vacancy in Broward Circuit Court following Judge John J. Murphy III's resignation announcement.
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National Law Journal

9th Circuit's Unusually Low Reversal Rate This Supreme Court Term Doesn't Tell Full Story

"Within this 50% affirmance rate, which is itself surprising to most people, you have individual cases that depart from the pattern one has come to expect in Ninth Circuit cases in the Supreme Court," said professor Arthur Hellman. "[But] I think it may be simply happenstance."
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Daily Report Online

New Fulton Judge Sets Ground Rules for Long-Running Gang, Racketeering Case Against Rapper Young Thug

The new judge presiding over the prosecution of the rapper and several other defendants says she plans to move forward expeditiously with the trial.
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National Law Journal

Latest Term Reveals Justice Barrett's 'Meticulous' Approach to Judging

"I think she has clearly distinguished herself from the most conservative wing of the court," Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky said of Amy Coney Barrett.
9 minutes read

The Recorder

Judge Claps Back at Yahoo Lead Counsel for 'Very Unreasonable' Fee Dispute

'Can you point to a single case in the history of litigation where a judge awarded class counsel a multiplier on work performed by other lawyers?' U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria asked lead counsel John Yanchunis at a Thursday hearing.
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National Law Journal

'Ground Shifted': 6th Circuit Judge Doubts Chevron-Based Ruling Still Applies in Family Planning Case

Raymond Kethledge seemed doubtful of the Biden administration's argument that a 1991 U.S. Supreme Court decision that relied on Chevron remains binding precedent.
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New York Law Journal

NY Family and Civil Courts to Add 28 Judges Under Bill Signed Into Law

The reinforcements are expected to ease a crisis of thousands of backlogged cases.
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