The Los Angeles Times on May 28 reports, “A Los Angeles judge blames the design of the Land Rover Discovery SUV in the 2003 accident.” of a California man. While T he judge agreed Jaguar Land Rover must “pay $21.1 million. According to “Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Robert H. O’Brien” there are “two key reasons for his decision: The vehicle’s high center of gravity made it susceptible to rolling over, and its roof collapsed too easily, causing Sukhsagar Pannu to suffer a debilitating spinal cord injury.”
U.S. Supreme Court Rules That Judges Must Recuse Themselves if There Is an Appearance of Bias
June 9, 2009
An AAJ article today reported on the case of Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co. in which the Court held in a 5-4 decision that state court judges that get big campaign contributions cannot sit in judgment of their biggest contributors.