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We expect those tasked with administering justice to practice impartiality in their rulings, writes Kirsi Goldynia. The justices, too, acknowledge the importance of keeping personal views out of judicial proceedings.

Emory Law’s Michael Broyde, Indiana Law School’s Charles Geyh, and Campaign Legal Center’s Danielle Caputo reflect on what the US Supreme Court’s new ethics code accomplishes and how it falls short.

From the blog of Richard Kronenfeld at The Times of Israel

For thousands of years, Jews have utilized a form of alternative dispute resolution called Batei Din (translated as "houses of judgment"), which apply Jewish law (halacha) in adjudicating legal disputes.

LOS ANGELES — Four women who accused the actor Danny Masterson of rape can move forward with a harassment lawsuit against the Church of Scientology, a California appeals court ruled Wednesday. The suit was filed by women who said they were stalked and harassed by agents of the church after they repo

A California appeals court says Danny Masteron's accusers case against the Church of Scientology can proceed.

After Chrissie Bixler told the LAPD that Scientologist and actor Danny Masterson had raped her, strangers showed up at her home, filmed her family and peeked in her windows. Two of her dogs mysteriously died, one by eating meat laced with rat poison. Her security system was hacked. Someone posted ads in her name on Craigslist soliciting men for anal sex.

Some of the women who claimed that actor Danny Masterson sexually assaulted them had signed agreements to submit disputes to binding arbitration.

Danny Masterson's case has refocused attention on religious arbitration, in which disputes are settled outside of courts, with little or no public scrutiny.

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