Center for Political Accountability and the Carol and Lawrence Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research
Amici Curiae
Karl J. Sandstrom, Counsel of Record Karl J. Sandstrom is a lawyer with the law firm Perkins Cole, where he specializes in political and Federal campaign finance law. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for the Petitioners as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on January 5, 2009.When a judge of a State’s highest court casts the deciding vote in favor of a party whose chief executive officer spent millions of dollars supporting his election campaign, the opposing parties and observers should rightfully question whether the judge was impartial and whether all parties received due process. Under…
