The Seattle Times reports on a new Supreme Court decision announced yesterday in Caperton v. Massey, 08-22, that “elected judges must step aside from cases when large campaign contributions from interested parties create the appearance of bias.” This case comes from West Virginia and involves a situation where the largest contributor to a state supreme court judge’s campaign was also involved as a party in a case that was coming before that court. Interesting case.

Here are two more stories about this case. I am sure there will be many discussing this. The first comes from law.com and the second is from the ABA Journal that a reader of our blog pointed out to me.