Article: Merit selection study panel sets January 14 hearing, Miami.(Brief Article)

Article: Merit selection study group invites input.
Florida Bar News;  October 15, 1999 ;     462 words ... ... Special Committee on Merit Selection and Retention will ... or through the merit selection process. All Bar ... through the Bar's Governmental Affairs Office, 650 Apalachee ... should contact the Governmental Affairs Office as well ...

Article: Beyond merit selection.(federal and state judges)
Fordham Urban Law Journal;  February 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... in the early twentieth century when merit selection was proposed as an alternative to ... appointment and popular election. Merit selection became the goal of reformers seeking ... advocates of election. Missouri adopted merit selection in 1940. Soon thereafter, merit ...

Article: DEBUNKING MYTHS ON JUDICIAL MERIT SELECTION.(THE ...
The Capital Times (Madison, WI);  October 15, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Wisconsin Assembly as a supporter of merit selection reform for the Wisconsin Supreme Court ... certainly sparked some debate on judicial merit selection - especially in the pages of the Cap ... support, and that's not what judicial merit selection would do. Merit selection ...

Article: Examining the decline in support for merit ...
Albany Law Review;  March 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... change from judicial elections to merit selection systems has declined significantly ... 1) The last state to adopt a merit selection system by constitutional amendment ... judicial elections with some type of merit-selection system for some or all levels of courts ...

Article: Lynn M. Nowak of Nancy H. Becker Associates Joins Porzio ...
PR Newswire;  October 29, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Porzio Governmental Affairs is pleased to announce that Lynn ... joined her practice with Porzio Governmental Affairs, LLC, according to an announcement ... Campbell, President and CEO of Porzio Governmental Affairs and Managing Principal of Porzio ...

Article: AJS project will preserve and expand merit ...
Judicature;  January 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... s Preservation and Expansion of Merit Selection project has received a $200,000 ... the preservation and expansion of merit selection systems by providing nonpartisan public ... expertise and assistance in support of the merit selection process. The Project will preserve ...

Article: The futile quest for a system of judicial "merit" ...
Albany Law Review;  March 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... Plan," or alternatively the "merit-selection plan," was an attempt to find a middle ground. Under merit selection--purely, so far as I can ... Public involvement under the merit selection plan, generally confined simply ...