According to the State House News Service:Sponsors of a constitutional amendment guaranteeing individuals the right to health insurance cleared all of their signature-gathering hurdles and won the first of two favorable votes (153-41) from … [Read more...]
Judicial Nominating Commission filled – Gov. Patrick makes 18 appointments
[Interesting cross section of the legal community here - ]For the whole story: http://www.masslawye...Yesterday, Gov. Deval L. Patrick filled the remaining 18 vacancies on his Judicial Nominating Commission. The new JNC appointees … [Read more...]
Reality Check on the Judicial Appointment Process for the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts
For her part, Chief Justice Margaret Marshall, a Weld appointee of a highly liberal bent, possesses a legal education and professional legal experience more suited to an appointee to the Capetown Superior Court in her native South Africa … [Read more...]
TODAY (2/15/07) The SJC has requested Notice and Comment on a Proposed Rule Change
URGENT: YOUR input is needed now!The Supreme Judicial Court has published a "Notice and Comment" TOPIC: Standards for Representation of children and others "under a disability"LINK TO NOTICE: http://www.mass.gov/...Three … [Read more...]