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Connecticut Supreme Court

The court became embroiled in a lengthy ethics scandal in 2006 when the Hartford Courant revealed that retiring Chief Justice William J. Sullivan postponed the publication of a controversial decision opposing Freedom of Information Act requests for documents that track the status and history of legal cases in the Connecticut legal system until hearings for his successor Justice Peter T. Zarella were completed.


Allyn L. Brown

Allyn Larrabee Brown (born Norwich, Connecticut, October 26, 1883; died in Norwich October 22, 1973) was a lawyer, judge, and Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.


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Hezekiah L. Hosmer

Hosmer came from a prominent family; his father Titus Hosmer signed the Articles of Confederation for Connecticut, and Hosmer's brother Stephen became the Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.

Justice Baldwin

Simeon Baldwin, an Associate Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors

Justice Sullivan

William J. Sullivan (born 1939), a Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court

Kerrigan

Kerrigan v. Commissioner of Public Health, a Connecticut Supreme Court case concerning same-sex marriage

Old Lyme, Connecticut

John McCurdy (b.1724), whose home was the resting place for George Washington on April 10, 1776 while traveling to New York City to take on the British Army and Navy (source: Papers of George Washington, Connecticut State Library); grandfather of Connecticut Supreme Court judge Charles McCurdy

Richard Palmer

Richard N. Palmer (born 1950), Associate Justice on the Connecticut Supreme Court

William J. Sullivan

He was appointed to the Connecticut Appellate Court by Gov. John G. Rowland in 1997 and remained there until his elevation to the Connecticut Supreme Court in 1999.