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Tag Archives: Court Watch
Court Watch: Mudfest 2010
Millions of dollars are pouring into races for slots on state Supreme Courts, where the winners will make decisions about the lives and liberty of individuals, the fates of major corporations and other weighty matters. Unfortunately the TV ads …
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Tagged Court Watch, David Baker, Marsha Ternus, Michael Streit, Robert Young, Thomas Kilbride
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Court Fight in the Heart of Dixie
Summary Alabama holds the distinction of having had the nation’s most expensive Supreme Court races, with $54 million spent from 1993 through 2006. This year’s battle for an open seat on the bench seems likely to sustain the pattern, with heaps of cash being thrown down for ads and a …
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Tagged alabama supreme court, Court Watch, deborah bell paseur, greg shaw
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Winning Ugly in Wisconsin
Summary In a Wisconsin throwdown, incumbent Supreme Court Justice Louis Butler narrowly lost his reelection bid after being hit with a barrage of deceptive attack ads. We’ve written about some of them in recent weeks. Attack ads targeting the incumbent heavily outnumbered attacks aimed at the business-backed winner, Circuit …
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Tagged Court Watch, judicial ad, judicial election, Wisconsin Supreme Court
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Wisconsin Judgment Day, the Sequel
In this second of our “Court Watch” series, we return to what’s become a racially charged campaign in Wisconsin to replace Louis Butler, the only black justice on the state Supreme Court, with a white, business-backed lower court judge, Mike Gableman. We look at two ads that attack Butler and find both to be misleading.
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Judgment Day in Wisconsin
Summary Some of the hardest fought campaigns in 2008 will be to determine who sits on the highest courts in a number of states, courts where the stakes can be billions of dollars for corporations and insurance companies; millions in fees for trial lawyers; compensation for those who have been …
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