The criminal case against former President Donald Trump for attempting to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia will be handled by the newest judge on the Superior Court of Fulton County, Judge Scott McAfee. McAfee is a former prosecutor who once worked in the same office as Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. Judges are randomly assigned to cases. McAfee was appointed to the court in February by the state’s Republican Governor Brian Kemp.Read more about McAfee.
Judicial reform advocacy group Fix the Court filed a complaint with the 5th Circuit Judicial Council accusing U.S. District Judge Brantley Starr of engaging in misconduct by taking the “strange” step of requiring three attorneys for Southwest Airlines to attend “religious liberty training” by a prominent conservative Christian legal group. The group, Alliance Defending Freedom, is routinely involved in high-profile court cases on abortion and religious liberties. Starr did not respond to requests for comment. Read more.
Just a month before oral arguments in an appeal that will test the legality of a corporate strategy to combat mass arbitration, a new ruling from a federal trial judge has highlighted the strategy’s potential due process pitfalls.Alison Frankel explains why a Los Angeles judge’s criticism of Live Nation’s bellwether process for handling thousands of antitrust arbitration demands by Ticketmaster customers could impact Verizon’s landmark 9th Circuit appeal in a different mass arbitration case.
