Sentences with phrase «2nd circuit judge»

Speaking at a panel discussion before an audience at the American Bar Association's annual meeting in New York City, 2nd circuit judge Robert Katzmann and 9th circuit judge M. Margaret McKeown described a crisis fueled by increased enforcement and detention, bad or non-existent lawyering for immigrants facing deportation, as well as overwhelmed immigration judges and appeal judges.

As you've probably already heard, yesterday, the Senate confirmed the nomination of 2nd Circuit Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the United States Supreme Court.

In response to a question from the audience (Legal Blog Watch's Robert Ambrogi, to be specific), Toobin speculated that 2nd Circuit Judge Sonia Sotomayor could become the Court's first Hispanic Justice.

It's been a little over 24 hours since President Obama announced his first nomination for the United States Supreme court, 2nd Circuit judge Sonia Sotomayor.

My partner - in - blog Carolyn Elefant did a great job yesterday rounding up the first 24 hours» reaction among bloggers and pundits to President Obama's nomination of 2nd Circuit Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court.

The 2nd Circuit judges said that ruling only applies to independent corporate expenditures, and not to contributions limits such as those enacted in New York.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor did not take part because she was part of the original 2nd Circuit panel to have decided the Marcus appeal, along with 2nd Circuit Judges Chester J. Straub and Richard C. Wesley.

Not exact matches

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan reversed a lower court judge's dismissal of investors» antitrust claims against 16 banks, including Deutsche Bank AG, UBS AG, Bank of America (bac) and J.P. Morgan because she found no showing of anticompetitive harm.

The 2nd Circuit reinstated Brady's DeflateGate suspension in April by a 2 - 1 vote, overturning a federal judge's decision to vacate his ban.

Silver, 72, separately filed notice with the court Wednesday, alerting the judge he will take his case to the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals.

After the 2nd Circuit ruled last week, the three - judge panel hearing the appeal in the Skelos case asked lawyers to submit additional legal arguments in light of the Silver decision.

Silver was convicted of using his political influence for political favors; the conviction was tossed last summer, when appellate judges in the 2nd Circuit ruled that the definition of «official acts» had been changed by a previous Supreme Court decision in the public corruption case of former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell.

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In a seven - page order, a three - judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said that the county needs to «stop making excuses» and complete its obligations.

Jepsen, also a Democrat, announced in December 2013 that he was suspending an effort to get the U.S. Supreme Court to review a ruling against the state by a three - judge panel of the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in May of that year, and instead said he would try to limit the state's exposure to damages by seeking to negotiate a settlement with SEBAC.

The 2nd Circuit said the instructions given to the Silver jury by the trial judge were consistent with precedential rulings in other cases prior to the Supreme Court decision in the McDonnell case.

Just this week, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the district court's certification of the case as a class action, and told the district court judge he needs to decide whether Google's snippets of text could be considered «fair use.»

A Southern District of New York judge quashed supoeonas seeking to produce the confidential notes, but on Thursday the New York - based 2nd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in a summary order instructed the trial court to conduct an en camera review of the mediator's notes.

He might have lost yet another battle, but Den Hollander has vowed to appeal Judge Kaplan's decision to the 2nd Circuit.

Among the likely candidates are 7th U.S. Circuit Judge Diane Wood, 2nd U.S. Circuit Judge Sonia Sotomayor, Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan, Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano and Michigan Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm.

«The 2nd Circuit now recognizes that district courts have discretion to deviate from the guidelines, way up or way down, so long as the district court judge justifies that decision,» he said...

In a decision important to high - dollar white - collar prosecutions, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals bolstered the broad discretion of trial judges to issue sentences far below, or far above, sentencing guidelines.

The National Law Journal noticed the Second Circuit's important (though unpublished) sentencing work earlier this week as reported in this article, headlined «In Upholding Impath Exec's Sentence, 2nd Circuit Bolsters Discretion of Trial Judges.»

A three - judge panel of the 2nd Circuit agreed there was no First Amendment violation, but they differed in their reasoning.

In this decision, the 2nd Circuit exonerated U.S. District Court Judge Robert Chatigny for his handling of the case of death row prisoner Michael Ross, who decided to forego habeas petitions and was scheduled to die by lethal injection (full account of the story is here).

Today, Mike Cernovich takes the 2nd Circuit to task for downplaying lower court Judge Owen's bias.

But such is the situation following the report by a small New York legal newspaper that 2nd U.S. Circuit Chief Judge Dennis Jacobs, speaking at a Federalist Society event in Rochester, N.Y., described pro bono work as «antisocial» and «self - serving.»

Ironically, the 2nd Circuit maintains its own pro bono panel and Judge Jacobs's name appears prominently on an April 2008 announcement soliciting members for the panel.

Take Dennis Jacobs, chief judge of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.