The National Law Journal recently reported on a study by Joanna Shepherd, a professor at Emory University School of Law, finding “a ‘statistically significant’ relationship between ballooning campaign contributions by business interest to state supreme court candidates and pro-business decisions by those courts.” The study covered “more than 2,345 business-related state high court opinions between 2010 and 2012 and campaign contributions during that same time to sitting state high court judges.” Interestingly, “the researchers reported a stronger relationship between campaign contributions and pro-business judicial decisions by Democrat-affiliated judges.”
The full article can be read here, and the study can be read here.
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