Sentences with phrase «appeals chief judge»

Cochran Firm, D.C. Partner and President of the Washington Bar Association Karen E. Evans was recently on hand to help recognize Washington, D.C. Court of Appeals Chief Judge Eric T. Washington with the Ollie May Cooper award.

It was quite a week for 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Judge Alex Kozinski.

The book features a forward by 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Judge Alex Kozinski.

The program was spearheaded by New York Court of Appeals Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman.

In my ABA Journal article, New York Court of Appeals Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman makes this very point: «Even with whatever success we've had with public funding of legal services and pro bono work by lawyers, there is still a gaping hole in our system of providing legal services to the poor and people of limited means.»

Party officials, in a move to repair their reputation, announced this week they would follow the recommendations of former Court of Appeals Chief Judge Judith Kaye and open their financial books and put information online.

New York State Court of Appeals Chief Judge Judith Kaye in her chambers on Sept. 14, 1998, in Albany, N.Y. (Skip Dickstein / Times Union archive)

Times Union photo by SKIP DICKSTEIN - SEPT. 14, 1998 — COURT OF APPEALS CHIEF JUDGE JUDITH KAYE IN HER CHAMBERS IN THE COURT OF APPEALS BUILDING IN DOWNTOWN ALBANY.

The state's highest judge, New York Court of Appeals Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman, also speaks highly of Fitzpatrick, calling him a «straight shooter» who «calls it the way he sees it.»

The state's Commission on Judicial Nomination on Thursday submitted the seven nominees to Gov. Cuomo, who has until Dec. 1 to pick one of them to replace retiring Court of Appeals Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman.

ALBANY — Court of Appeals chief judge Jonathan Lippman has become the leading advocate for a proposal to increase the mandatory retirement age for many judges to 80, an extraordinary level of involvement for someone in his position.

Mark - Viverito said her commission to «explore a community - based justice model» would be led by retired state court of Appeals Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman, a champion of bail and juvenile justice reform.

It also counts Judith Kaye, a former Court of Appeals chief judge, among its ranks.

Court of Appeals Chief Judge Janet DiFiore has assembled a task force to determine whether an overhaul of the state Constitution would benefit the judiciary.

In her state of the judiciary address, Court of Appeals Chief Judge Janet DiFiore zeroed in on the opioid crisis in New York.

In an unusual move designed to make criminal trials fairer, state Court of Appeals Chief Judge Janet DiFiore issued a new rule requiring judges to forcefully order prosecutors to search their files and disclose all evidence favorable to the defense at least 30 days before major trials.

Liz Benjamin sat down with NY Court of Appeals Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman for more about this budget dispute and also ask him about the recent reports that the Judiciary is building posh apartments.

Court of Appeals Chief Judge Janet DiFiore wrote in her decision that state law makes it clear the vacancy rent increase should be counted when figuring if an apartment has reached the deregulation threshold.

The timetable places the burden of actually closing the complex on the mayor's successor, and the plan does not have a schematic for locating the replacement jails bordering the criminal court buildings in each of the five boroughs, as called for in a report former state Court of Appeals Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman co-authored earlier this year.

At 11:30 a.m., DiNapoli attends the State of Our Judiciary address by New York Court of Appeals Chief Judge Janet DiFiore, Court of Appeals Hall, 20 Eagle St., Albany.

At 2 p.m., NYC Councilmembers Rory Lancman, Keith Powers and Carlos Menchaca demand state Court of Appeals Chief Judge Janet DiFiore eject ICE from New York's courthouses, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

A modernization of the state court system over the last year continues as part of an effort to streamline cases and reduce backlogs, Court of Appeals Chief Judge Janet DiFiore said Tuesday during her state judiciary address.

Not exact matches

Marrick Garland, 63, is currently chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

In 1994, President Bill Clinton appointed Mr. Henry to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, where he served until June 2010, most recently as Chief Judge.

In today's high court appeal judgement, Lord Chief Justice Lord Judge, Mr Justice Owen and Mr Justice Griffith Williams said: «If the person or persons who receive or read it, brush it aside as a silly joke, or a joke in bad taste, or empty bombastic or ridiculous banter, then it would be a contradiction in terms to describe it as a message of a menacing character.»

«The Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals is appointing a new Chair of the Commission, former Judge Leo Milonas,» Azzopardi said.

Some hours after Mr Uche Ogah, collected certificate of return and declared as the authentic governor of Abia state by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, an Abia High Court has asked all judiciary officers, including the Chief Judge and the President of the Customary Court of Appeal in the state not to swear in Ogah as governor of Abia State.

Janet DiFiore, Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals and of the State of New York, was born in 1955 in Mount Vernon, New York.

DiFiore has close ties to Cuomo, and Republican senators asked her if she would demonstrate judicial independence if confirmed to be Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals, the state's highest court.

On December 1, 2015, Governor Andrew Cuomo nominated her to the position of Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals and the State of New York.

b. (l) The commission on judicial conduct shall consist of eleven members, of whom four shall be appointed by the governor, one by the temporary president of the senate, one by the minority leader of the senate, one by the speaker of the assembly, one by the minority leader of the assembly and three by the chief judge of the court of appeals.

ICYMI: Former Chief Judge Judith Kaye joined me on CapTon last night to discuss the Commission on Judicial Nomination's novel new approach to finding a replacement for retiring Court of Appeals Court Justice Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick, who is hitting the state's constitutionally mandated retirement age of 70.

Thanks to New York's chief judge, Jonathan Lippman, the state's highest court will hear the appeal of a veteran GOP consultant convicted of stealing $ 750,000 worth of Mayor Bloomberg's money contributed to the state Independence Party during the 2009 New York City mayor's race and intended to be used for an Election Day voting security program.

ALBANY, NY (12/10/2010)(readMedia)-- Governor David A. Paterson today was joined by Chief Judge of the New York State Court of Appeals Jonathon Lippman; Assembly Speaker Silver; President of the New York State Bar Association Steve Younger; Chair of the Fund for Modern Courts Victor Kovner; and distinguished members of the New York State judiciary as he signed legislation establishing a special Commission on Judicial Compensation.

Cuomo chose DiFiore, an ally who ran his ethics commission for a time, who would be only the second woman chief judge of the New York Court of Appeals.

Chief Judge of the New York State Court of Appeals Jonathon Lippman said: «A permanent commission dedicated to judicial compensation is a very positive development for the future of an independent and strong Judiciary in New York.

Mark - Viverito convened a commission led by retired Chief Judge of the State Court of Appeals Jonathan Lippman to explore a path toward that goal.

As of December 31, New York State has no chief judge of the Court of Appeals.

A three - man panel of the Court of Appeal led by Justice Helen Ogunwumiju, unanimously agreed with the decision of Justice A.M. Liman of the Federal High Court in Enugu that there was no legal basis to grant the prayer sought by the former Chief Judge.

He had prior to his elevation to the apex court bench, served as the Chief Judge of Kano State from 1979 to 1985, before he was promoted to the Court of Appeal where he served from 1985 till 2003.

Mr. Cuomo nominates three members, with the chief judge of the Court of Appeals nominating two.

The Enugu Division of the Court of Appeal has explained why it refused to unfreeze the Zenith Bank account of a former Chief Judge of Enugu State, Justice Innocent Umezulike (retd), who is being prosecuted for allegedly using his then office to confer corrupt or unfair advantage on himself.

She would be the second woman to lead the Court of Appeals; the late Mario Cuomo, the current governor's father, who himself served as governor from 1983 to 1994, named Judith Kaye as chief judge in 1993.

The Court of Appeals eventually ruled in Soares» favor but even then - Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman noted the case involved a «personal issue back and forth» between Carter and Soares.

QUEENS, NY — Borough President Melinda Katz stated the following about former Chief Judge Judith Kaye, the State's first female Chief Judge and first woman appointed to the Court of Appeals: «Judge Kaye was a trailblazer in her own right and a fearless pioneer for justice.

Many of these cases landed in the courtrooms at 60 Centre St., presided over by judges with ties to Silver and his lifelong pal, Jonathan Lippman, the chief judge of the state Court of Appeals.

The bar association traditionally rates candidates for the Court of Appeals chosen by the state's Commission on Judicial Nomination, which is headed by the state's first woman chief judge, former Judge Judith judge, former Judge Judith Judge Judith Kaye.

The Senate is scheduled to weigh the nomination of Janet DiFiore, the Westchester County district attorney and former chairwoman of Cuomo's ethics commission, as chief judge of the state Court of Appeals.

The Media Coalition Against illegal Mining is appealing to the Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo, to sensitize judges adjudicating galamsey cases on the need to hand out sanctions deterrent enough to perpetrators of illegal mining.

Bharara did appear in the ornate Court of Appeals chambers with Cuomo to witness the swearing in of the Governor's pick for the new chief judge, Janet DiFiore.