Contact an Austin personal injury attorney if you have been injured. Blog provides information on topics such as car and truck accidents, medical malpractice, defective products, and workplace and on-the-job injuries. http://austin.injuryboard.com/tag/judicial+elections/ <p>Yesterday, early voting started in Texas. Lost amidst the hype of the presidential election are the elections of three Texas Supreme Court justices. Unfortunately, their race highlights a growing problem in Texas: the reliance of contributions from parties with business before the Court.</p> <p><a href="http://www.tpj.org">Texans for Public Justice</a>, a non-partisan watchdog group, released a report earlier this month talking about this phenomenon. After doing a <a href="http://www.tpj.org/reports/courtroomcontributions/index.html">study</a>, the group found that for the three incumbents and their challengers alike approximately 2/3 of their donations come from attorneys or parties with business before the Court. </p> <p>Frankly, I think we should all be concerned about <a href="http://www.legalnewsline.com/news/216683-texas-supreme-court-candidates-rake-in-contributions">impartiality of our justices</a> when this is the case. And having a Court that currently decides almost 90% of its cases for big business or insurance companies, I think questioning the effect of those contributions might be appropriate. </p><a href="http://austin.injuryboard.com/miscellaneous/texas-supreme-court-candidates-awash-in-contributions.aspx?googleid=249798">Originally posted</a> at <a href="http://www.InjuryBoard.com">InjuryBoard</a> by Brooks Schuelke http://austin.injuryboard.com/miscellaneous/texas-supreme-court-candidates-awash-in-contributions.aspx?googleid=249798 Austin Personal Injury Lawyer - judicial elections Miscellaneous Texas Supreme Court judicial elections Brooks Schuelke Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:38:38 GMT