Judicial Disqualification One Year after Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal

On June 8, 2009, the U.S. Supreme Court held that due process required the disqualification of a state supreme court justice based on extraordinary expenditures in support of his candidacy by a principal for a party in a case pending before the court at the time of the campaign.  Caperton v. A. T. Massey Coal Co., 129 S. Ct. 2252 (2009).  The decision was hailed as a crucial first step in judicial disqualification reform -- and criticized as inviting limitless challenges to judicial impartiality.  This program will examine the decision and developments in the year since to evaluate what, if anything, changed after Caperton.

 
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