Listed below are the past lead stories that have been posted
on our web site. Just click on any title to read the full
story.
2008
CRC and Seven Other National Organizations Urge Senators to Support a Ban on Junkets for Judges
Supreme Court Rulings Deliver Double Blow to Federalism
Federal Judges Remain on Board of Corporate-Sponsored Junketing Organization as Ethics Committee Opinion Kept Secret, Senate Committee to Consider Junkets Ban
2007
Community Rights Counsel Hails Supreme Court Ruling in Global Warming Case
Records Show U.S. Courts' Staff Slow-Walking New Junkets Reporting Rules, ExxonMobil Reaping Benefits
Bush Appellate Court Nominee Withdraws Because of
Bipartisan Environmental Opposition
2006
Local Officials Say Plain Text of Clean Air Act Should Drive Result in
Global Warming Case
Community Rights Counsel Hails New Rules on Junkets
Local Officials From Across the Country Urge Supreme Court
to Order U.S. EPA to Reconsider Global Warming Decision
CRC Hails Supreme Court Decision to Hear Momentous Case on Global Warming
Five Justices Reaffirm Broad Congressional Authority to Protect Nation’s Waters
Rapanos in Pictures
Tobacco and Oil Company Documents Undercut Groups’ Claims to Media, Judges and Public About Corporate Funding for Judges’ Junkets
Despite Years of Growing Outrage, Corporate Junkets for Judges
Increase by 60%
Statement of Doug Kendall Re: Rapanos v. United States
Senators Move To Stop Judicial Junkets
Community Rights Counsel Report: Alito Nomination Raises Fundamental Concerns about the Future of Environmental Law
2005
Community Rights Counsel News Release:Alito, Scalia
and Access to Courts
Community Rights Counsel Calls for Thorough Review of Miers’ Environmental Record and Judicial Philosophy
Statement of Community Rights Counsel on the Withdrawal of the Nomination of Harriet Myers: The Krauthammer Smokescreen
Despite Environmental Concerns, Community Rights Counsel Does Not Oppose the Confirmation of John Roberts as Chief Justice of the United States
What Makes Roberts Different
Supreme
Court Upholds Use of Eminent Domain to Help Economically
Depressed Communities
Community
Rights Counsel Welcomes Ruling in Gonzales v. Raich,
Notes Favorable Implications for Environmental Safeguards
Opinion
Shows Ethics Process is Broken
Community
Rights Counsel Hails Supreme Court's Ruling in Lingle
v. Chevron
Three Federal Judges Leave Junkets
Board in Response to CRC Ethics Petitions
CRC
Ethics Petition Leads to First Judge Quitting Junketing
Organization's Board
New Documents,
Rancher's Lawyer, Contradict 9th Circuit Nominee's Testimony
Learning to Love the Bomb
Interior IG Condemns Sweetheart Deal
with Repeat Offender
2004
Committee on Codes
of Conduct Weakens Rules on Judicial Junkets
- Committee
rewrites ethics rules on junkets
Redefining Federalism
- Listening to the States in Shaping "Our
Federalism"
A Big Question about Clarence Thomas
- Clarence Thomas and stare decisis
Michigan Supreme Court Overturns
Poletown
- County of Wayne v. Hathcock
CRC Files Fourth Ethics Petition against
Judge on FREE Board
- Judge Andre Davis should step
down from FREE's Board
Community Rights Counsel Touts
Role of Environmental Issues in Defeat of the Nomination
of William G. Myers to the Ninth Circuit
- William Myers, nominated to
the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Judicial
Ethics Watchdog Decries ABA's Proposed Weakening of Judicial
Ethics Rules
- Judicial "honor" no longer
required under new code
ABA Considering Weakening
Model Code of Judicial Conduct
- Weakening the Model Code of Judicial
Conduct
Myers Caught in Attempt to Give Away
Public Lands
- Judicial nominee William Myers
Protecting Public Health and the
Environment
- Engine Manufacturers Associations
and Western States Petroleum Association v. South Coast
Air Quality Management District
2003
Ohio Supreme Court Trashes Parcel-as-a-Whole
Rule
- State ex rel. R.T.G., Inc. v. State,
No. 01-748 (Ohio, Dec. 18, 2002)
Janice Rogers Brown and the Environment
- A Dangerous Choice for a Critical
Court
Community Rights Counsel Slams Purported
Conservatives for Supporting Brown
- Janice Rogers Brown, nominated
to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Judicial Nominee's Arguments Is For
The Birds
- William Haynes II, nominated to
the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Janice Rogers Brown and Lochner
- Janice Rogers Brown, nominated to the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decertifying Accountability
- Judiciary removes portion of disclosure
forms certification where judges certify they did not break
ethical rule
Self-Described Ideologue Confirmed
to Court of Federal Claims
- Victor Wolski, confirmed 53-43
Linking Judicial Junkets with
Judicial Pay
- Bill linking ban on judicial junkets
to judicial pay raise
The Fair and Independent Judiciary
Act of 2003
- Senators Leahy and Kerry introduce legislation
linking judicial junkets with judicial pay
Supreme Court IOLTA Victory
Protects Legal Funding For The Poor
- Brown v. Legal Foundation of Washington
McQueen v. South Carolina Coastal
Council
- South Carolina Supreme Court
hears arguments
A New Victory for Lake Tahoe
- Court Rejects Another Challenge
to Regional Protections
New York Pine Barrens
- Protection Reaffirmed in the Second
Circuit
The Real Story on the Marine Forests
Society and Its Attack on The California Coastal Commission
- Society brings lawsuit before California
Supreme Court
Estrada Nomination Roils U.S. Senate
- Miguel Estrada, nominated to the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Sixth Circuit Nominee Jeffrey S. Sutton
- A Threat to the Constitution and Fundamental
Environmental Protections
States' Rights vs. Civil Rights
- Nevada Department of Human Resources
v. Hibbs, No. 01-1368
Court Lets Stand Ruling Protecting
Wetlands
- Borden Ranch v. U.S.
Bush Renominates Environmentally
Hostile Judges
- Victor Wolski, U.S. Court of Federal
Claims, and Jeffrey Sutton, U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Sixth Circuit
2002
Supreme Court Debates Takings/IOLTA
Funding
- Washington Legal Foundation v. Legal
Foundation of Washington
A Constitutional Right To Cigarette
Secrecy?
- Ruling reverses Philip Morris , Inc.
v. Reilly, 2001 WL 1215365 (1st. Cir. 2001)
The Devious Dog in the Manger
- The Truth about IOLTA Programs
Nevada County Measures D Suffers
a Ringing Defeat
- Measure would have allowed property
owners to seek compensation when protections had negative
impact on their property's
value