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The attorneys for the Rand education funding case are asking again for the recusal of Chief Justice Gordon MacDonald and associate justice Daniel Will from deciding the state’s appeal at the Supreme Court.
Chris Sununu and Kelly Ayotte have broken with the tradition of maintaining a bipartisan balance on the New Hampshire Supreme Court so all five justices are Republicans now instead of a 3 to 2 split along party lines at a time when the court is facing heightened public scrutiny and Chief Justice Gordon MacDonald is out on indefinite medical leave.
The two original Claremont education funding decisions should be overturned in whole or in part, the state argues in its 125-page brief in its appeal of the superior court’s Rand decision.
The judge who dismissed the Civil Rights Act case against two members of the neo-Nazi gang NSC-131 and the group on First Amendment grounds wants prosecutors to come to his courtroom and explain why they think he’s wrong.
After exhausting all other appeal chances, a bid by Pam Smart to compel the Governor and Executive Council to reconsider giving her a commutation hearing failed with the state Supreme Court Wednesday.
The state Supreme Court has reversed domestic-violence related convictions against Marc Mallard because his defense attorney at trial in 2013 referred to him as “a big menacing black guy.”
The men and women suing the state claiming they were sexually and physically abused while incarcerated at the Youth Development Center in Manchester as minors have asked the court to allow their cases to go forward.
The report released Tuesday by the Task Force on Domestic Violence Cases in the New Hampshire Judicial Branch finds there are not enough resources in courts for victims of domestic violence, and there’s a lack of judicial accountability for when things go wrong.
Attorney General John Formella wants the lawsuit seeking the unredacted 280 names on the Laurie List of dishonest law enforcement officers dismissed, arguing the matter is no longer in dispute because a new law will make the list public anyway.