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Search results for "supreme court judges" ...
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Secret Justice: Judicial Speech
This is a booklet that talks about various supreme court judges and highlights their policies on correspondence with the press. The booklet contains a series of articles on cases that have gag orders.
Tags: gag orders; supreme court judges; press correspondence and judges
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Tips for Covering Judicial Elections
Almost 87% of America’s state judges are elected, and 38 states conduct some form of election for their Supreme Courts. These facts are helping to make judicial appointments and elections a topic of growing importance in the national media, and one that more and more reporters should be covering. This tipsheet offers some tips for covering the elections or appointments.
Tags: Judges; elections; appointments; selection; justice
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Supreme Court Judges' integrity called into doubt
The reporters of Jyllands-Posten (Denmark) found that senior judges were taking secondary positions that amount to as much as 80 percent of their annual income with little regard to conflict of interest situations that might arise. The court caseload was handled by newer judges. This tipsheet is a summary of the how the reporters used CAR to bring to light this practice and open more public records.
Tags: International; data collection; CAR; statistics; Denmark