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Judges and Judiciary

Aug. 1, 2009

New AJS Head to Push Merit Selection for Judges

Carole Wagner Vallianos, incoming president of the American Judicature Society, says the group would like to see all 50 states incorporate some form of a merit system in judicial selection.

By Pat Broderick
Daily Journal Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES - John Grisham's bestseller, "The Appeal," told a chilling tale of a mogul's manipulation of a judicial race in hopes of undoing a huge verdict against him.

It's a subject very much on the mind of Manhattan Beach attorney Carole Wagner Vallianos, incoming president of the American Judicature Society, a national nonpartisan organization of judges, lawyers and others working to improve the jus...

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