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March 12, 2010

CL – Open Meetings bill dies at Miss. Capitol

Open Meetings bill dies at Miss. Capitol A House chairman has killed a bill that was designed to strengthen Mississippi’s Open Meetings laws, saying a change to the bill amounted to an end-run around his authority. The bill passed the House last week but died Thursday when Judiciary A Committee Chairman Ed Blackmon chose not…
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March 12, 2010

In case you missed it – WSJ: Down in Mississippi, No Judgerly Love

Down in Mississippi, No Judgerly Love About two and a half years ago, we blogged a law-review article by University of Tennessee law professor Benjamin Barton which asked whether judges “systematically” favored the interests of the legal profession. It was Barton’s contention that the answer was, well, yes, that judges did, as a group, issue…