Sentences with phrase «chief justices court»

To stand up in the Lord Chief Justices Court in front of such an eminent bench with the likes of Lord Millett as Chair was just fantastic.

In a 9 - 0 judgment delivered by the Chief Justice the Court dismissed the appeal by the Attorney - General and allowed the cross-appeal by Terri Bedford.

Not exact matches

By contrast, Delaware Chancery Court Judge Leo Strine, now chief justice of the state Supreme Court, wrote in the Wake Forest Law Review: «Corporate law requires directors, as a matter of their duty of loyalty, to pursue a good faith strategy to maximize profits for the stockholders.»

In the words of the chief justice in the Chaoulli v. Quebec case, in which the Supreme Court of Canada overturned the prohibition against private health insurance in the province in 2005, «Access to a waiting list is not access to health care.»

«Thus, in a preliminary analysis, the chief justice... suspended what he saw as an act apparently little reasonable and proportionate, which, in addition to generating legal uncertainty, would leave millions of Brazilians without this communication tool,» a statement from the supreme court read.

Soon after Daniela Barbosa Assunção de Souza, a judge in Rio de Janeiro state, told mobile operators to stymie access to the Facebook - owned (fb) messaging app, the chief justice of Brazil's supreme court suspended her decision.

The duty to consult with First Nations resides with the Federal government — as Chief Justice McLachlin wrote in the 2004 Haida Nation v. British Columbia [2004] decision of the Supreme Court, «the ultimate legal responsibility for consultation and accommodation rests with the Crown.»

The court ruled unanimously, and Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the opinion.

The case was filed in a D.C. federal court under the direction of the Justice Department's newly installed antitrust chief, Makan Delrahim.

One was Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist.

In his dissent, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote that the Constitution «had nothing to do with» that ruling by the court majority.

Justice Steven Barrett in Bronx Supreme Court handed the longest sentence of 6-1/2 years to Eliseo Perez, 49, who was an assistant chief for security at the time of the attack.

Chief Justice John Roberts formally opened the term and the court turned quickly to its first argument.

Also cited on the DOJ's explanation of the statute is a decision from former Supreme Court Chief Justice William Howard Taft, who wrote, «To conspire to defraud the United States means primarily to cheat the Government out of property or money.»

He was considered for two U.S. Supreme Court vacancies that went to Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito.

Then there is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Beverley McLachlin, who on several occasions has decried the rise in the number of Canadians» representing themselves in court because they can not afford the legal Court, Beverley McLachlin, who on several occasions has decried the rise in the number of Canadians» representing themselves in court because they can not afford the legal court because they can not afford the legal fees.

As to DOL's 60 - day deadline to respond, Scalia, who previously served as DOL's chief legal officer and is the son of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, told ThinkAdvisor that «We expect to seek a means fairly promptly to be resolved in advance of the [April] compliance deadline.»

Scalia, who previously served as DOL's chief legal officer and is the son of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, agreed, stating that the DOL rule's impact «is nationwide, but it's very great in Texas.

Beverley McLachlin, the former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, has agreed to join Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal, the first Canadian to join the 20 - member body.

And RBC head Gordon Nixon made $ 12.6 million last year, 25 % more than the year before — 40 times the salary of the Prime Minister, 33 times that of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada — and 274 times the average Canadian wage.

To try and re-elect an Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice who has proven in the past that he thinks his opinion is above the laws of the state and has already been removed from the office once for his actions is disgraceful.

Dissenting from the Championruling, Chief Justice Melville Fuller issued a prescient warning that, having adopted the notion that the nation's «fundamental law is flexible,» the court would be met with constant demands to «ease the shoe where it pinches» until nothing resembling the vision of the Constitution remained.

«In 2014 the Lord Chancellor and Lord Chief Justice issued Mr Page with a reprimand after finding that during a Family Court hearing he had allowed himself to be influenced by his religious beliefs and not by the evidence.»

So, be honest and tell us what perversion it is that you're holding at such high regard that you would trample the beliefs of the First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, John Jay, who was also President of the American Bible Socity, and Patrick Henry and George Washington, the two men who most led the American Revolution.

I knew about Judge Roy Moore, the now - removed chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court who waged and lost a stubborn fight to keep a Ten Commandments monument in his courthouse.

Kagan did not suggest that the Supreme Court's majority (Kennedy, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito) voted to uphold sectarian prayer because they are members of the country's largest church, Roman Catholicism.

With the judiciary becoming more conservative during George W. Bush's presidency, some observers said the court under Chief Justice John Roberts would be anti-abortion activists best opportunity to relitigate Roe v. Wade.

In 1812 Joseph Story became the youngest judge ever to be appointed to the Supreme Court, and over the course of his lengthy tenure (1812 - 1845) he was Chief Justice John Marshall's right - hand man in defining the role of the court itself, and its jurisdiction over state an4 national lCourt, and over the course of his lengthy tenure (1812 - 1845) he was Chief Justice John Marshall's right - hand man in defining the role of the court itself, and its jurisdiction over state an4 national lcourt itself, and its jurisdiction over state an4 national laws..

As for my part, I am filing a complaint with the Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice and asking her and The Court to mark Tony Jones as a Vexatious Litigant in that state (he has to get judicial approval to sue); asking The Court to take action against Tony Jones» attorney's (M. Sue Wilson's) law license; and asking the Court to order an investigation into the family court judge who signed the Order (as it has been alleged that she is possibly the former law partner of M. Sue WiCourt Chief Justice and asking her and The Court to mark Tony Jones as a Vexatious Litigant in that state (he has to get judicial approval to sue); asking The Court to take action against Tony Jones» attorney's (M. Sue Wilson's) law license; and asking the Court to order an investigation into the family court judge who signed the Order (as it has been alleged that she is possibly the former law partner of M. Sue WiCourt to mark Tony Jones as a Vexatious Litigant in that state (he has to get judicial approval to sue); asking The Court to take action against Tony Jones» attorney's (M. Sue Wilson's) law license; and asking the Court to order an investigation into the family court judge who signed the Order (as it has been alleged that she is possibly the former law partner of M. Sue WiCourt to take action against Tony Jones» attorney's (M. Sue Wilson's) law license; and asking the Court to order an investigation into the family court judge who signed the Order (as it has been alleged that she is possibly the former law partner of M. Sue WiCourt to order an investigation into the family court judge who signed the Order (as it has been alleged that she is possibly the former law partner of M. Sue Wicourt judge who signed the Order (as it has been alleged that she is possibly the former law partner of M. Sue Wilson.

To, The Hon» ble Chief Justice, The Supreme Court, United States of America, Washington, D.C. Fax no: 213.547.8080 Dear Sir, Sub: Prosecution of previous President Mr. George W.Bush, for violation of International Code of Conduct.

John Jay, first Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court was also the President of the American Bible Society.

It reminds us that our most pressing constitutional questions (on slavery and secession) were settled out of court; that it took more than a wiser judge to reverse our most villainous chief justice (Roger Taney); and that our Constitution's most consequential interpreter wasn't a robed philosopher - king but a self - taught lawyer from Kentucky by way of Illinois.

There are such pressures in American society, but the court has not fallen captive to them, at least not since 1970, when Chief Justice Warren Burger spent many words rejecting the earlier hard - line — though still not «absolute» — separationist stance of the Earl Warren court.

Chief Justice William Rehnquist's opinion summarizes the basic attitude underlying the theologically germane aspects of the government's argument and the court's response.

William Howard Taft, the only president to also hold the office of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court:

This past year, writing for a tenuously unanimous Court, Chief Justice William Rehnquist refused to invent a constitutional right to assisted suicide, noting the political dangers of abolishing the existing laws of virtually all the states.

Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justices Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia, Stephen Breyer and Clarence Thomas attended the service, held at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, on the eve of the court's new term.

By adding the words «so help me God» to the oath of office, as Supreme Court chief justices and presidents have done since at least 1933, Roberts would...

Reviewing the Court's checkered pattern of church - state decisions, the Chief Justice was able to pick out a few strands of practical reason.

Our newly appointed chief will likely nominate Supreme Court justices.

• In Alabama, state Supreme Court chief justice Roy Moore said that officials are not «required» to issue licenses for 25 days.

Panama's new president, Guillermo Endara, the vice-president, the chief justice of the supreme court, and the new minister of the treasury all have significant ties to the drug trade.

While some have suggested that the Court has reined in its activist tendencies over the years» and there have indeed been heartening signs, such as the elevation of William Rehnquist, a dissenter in Roe v. Wade (1973), to the position of Chief Justice the same year Scalia joined the bench» Scalia's recent opinions remind us that these tendencies often prevail.

Moore won 50.14 % of the vote on Tuesday in the Republican primary for the Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court.

(CNN)-- Roy Moore, the former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice made famous by a Ten Commandments monument, is one step closer to getting his old job back.

When the matter reached the Supreme Court of the United States, Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney, writing for a seven — man majority against two dissenters, accepted Sandford's major contentions, not only sending Scott back into slavery, but holding, in effect, that he had never been free.

We took this one to the Supreme Court, and the decision, written by Chief Justice White, held that the First Amendment does not protect private censorship by the broadcaster and that, between the right of the broadcaster and the right of the listeners and viewers, «it is the right of the viewers and listeners that is paramount.»

Furthermore, the chief justice believes that the court, in imposing paternalistic limitations upon the process of full American political discussion, is justified by the evidence to be found in the experiences of other nations: «The history of many countries attests to the hazards of religion intruding into the political arena or of political power intruding into the legitimate and free exercise of religious belief.»

Virtually no one called for separation in the way that the Supreme Court understands it today: that legislation must evince secular purposes and effects, and foster no «excessive government entanglement with religion» (see Chief Justice Warren Burger's 1971 opinion in Lemon v. Kartzman).

Chief Justice Roy S. Moore of the Alabama Supreme Court insists upon resurrecting a doctrine of state's rights buried fifty years ago.