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Do Partisan Elections Of Judges Produce Unequal Justice? When Courts Review Employment Arbitrations, Michael Leroy
Do Partisan Elections Of Judges Produce Unequal Justice? When Courts Review Employment Arbitrations, Michael Leroy
Michael H LeRoy
Partisan election of judges is a growing concern as large contributions pour into judicial elections. State judges raised $157 million for their campaign funds from 1999 to 2006. Caperton v. A.T. Massey Co. Inc., 129 S.Ct. 2252 (2009), ruled that a state supreme court justice who cast the deciding vote for a company whose president contributed $2.3 million to his campaign violated the losing company’s due process rights. I examine whether partisan judicial elections affect court review of arbitrator rulings (called awards) in employment disputes. For this study, I added a new variable— method for selecting judges— to my database …