Newspapers Should Identify Appellate Judges, Says Professor

East Lansing Towne Courier, August 8, 2004

2 Pages Posted: 11 Sep 2010 Last revised: 4 Jun 2020

Date Written: 2004

Abstract

This Op-ed column advocates that newspaper articles on appellate court decisions should identify the judges who decided the appeal. Appellate court judges are elected officials in Michigan, and decide over 3,600 appeals a year. Yet few voters have ever heard of them, because newspaper articles rarely mention their names. Many appellate opinions are not newsworthy. But for those that do merit newspaper coverage, the identity of the judges who decided the appeal should be part of the story.

Keywords: Judges, Appellate courts, judicial opinions, identity of judges

Suggested Citation

Stockmeyer, Norman Otto, Newspapers Should Identify Appellate Judges, Says Professor (2004). East Lansing Towne Courier, August 8, 2004, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1674671

Norman Otto Stockmeyer (Contact Author)

Cooley Law School ( email )

300 S. Capitol Avenue
P.O. Box 13038
Lansing, MI 48901
United States

HOME PAGE: http://www.cooley.edu/faculty/norman-stockmeyer

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