Sentences with phrase «circuit courts»

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The U.S. Supreme Court refused to bypass the federal circuit courts in the legal dispute over the Trump administration's cancellation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, meaning that young immigrants known as Dreamers will be able to continue renewing their legal protections from deportation, at least for the time being.

The Chief Justice has designated 14 courts — 7 High Courts and 7 Circuit Courts — to deal with all mining offences committed under the Minerals and Mining Act, Act 703.

«The Minerals and Mining (Amendment) Act, 2015 (Act 900) has introduced new offences which confer jurisdiction on the High Courts and Circuit Courts.

Seven (7) Circuit Courts have also been designated to deal with all offences created under the Minerals and Mining (Amendment) Act 2015 (Act 900) and shall exercise concurrent jurisdiction with the High Court.

The Windsor decision striking down DOMA was less sweeping, with state and circuit courts following the Roe social engineering model more directly.

Nonprofits are now 0 — 5 in the circuit courts, depriving them of a coveted win that could force a showdown before the same Supreme Court that sided with family - owned corporations in its «Hobby Lobby» ruling on the mandate, which is an outgrowth of the Affordable Care Act of 2010.

«If Judge Moss denies the injunction and Judge Crabtree grants an injunction, expect the battle to move quickly to the circuit courts, and a likely march to the Supreme Court.»

«If Judge Moss denies the injunction and Judge Crabtree grants an injunction, expect the battle to move quickly to the circuit courts, and a likely march to the Supreme Court,» Sweeney said.

While his nominees have received blue slips from Democratic senators in Colorado, Michigan, and Indiana, Trump has mostly avoided naming judicial nominees for district and circuit courts from states represented by at least one Democrat.

He argued on behalf of Grokster, another ill - fated music service, before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

In April, the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Aereo could continue to operate while the New York litigation moves forward.

He noted that the number of circuit court judges the Senate confirmed set the record for the most in a year since the system was established in 1891.

Her decision to leave the church comes the same week the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an injunction barring the Obama administration from implementing a policy of deferring deportation actions against more than 4 million undocumented immigrants.

Still, experts said those comments were likely to hurt the government's case in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which heard arguments on Tuesday night over whether the TRO should be upheld while the order's legality is established.

The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled that even if these allegations are true, Yelp still isn't guilty of extortion.

«While we had significant victories in the federal district courts in New York and Boston and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, the reversal of the Second Circuit decision in June by the U.S. Supreme Court has proven difficult to overcome,» Kanojia conceded in a blog post titled «The «Next Chapter.»

The New York - based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 2016 sided with Microsoft, handing a victory to tech firms that increasingly offer cloud computing services in which data is stored remotely.

A three - judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is scheduled to hear arguments Monday from lawyers for Bayou Bridge Pipeline LLC, federal regulators and...

But company lawyer Jesse Binnall said the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, which upheld the lower ruling, did so on procedural grounds, so that the Justice Department's win would not influence much elsewhere.

«We've already started preparing the paperwork needed to continue to fight for the Constitution in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals,» he wrote.

A three - judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is scheduled to...

A Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco has ruled that a challenge to the state's 145 - year - old ban on prostitution may proceed, saying a 2003 Supreme Court ruling opened the door for closer scrutiny of the law.

The record labels asked the Supreme Court to hear their appeal of the circuit court ruling, but the justices declined.

Last year, the New York - based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals disagreed, finding that the DMCA applied to infringement claims brought under federal and state law, including oldies songs.

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear an appeal of that ruling later in the month.

The Justice Department urged the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond to lift a stay imposed by a Maryland federal judge March 16th blocking the administration from carrying out the executive order.

Circuit Court Judge Pamela Campbell has ruled that only the jury may see it, and not others in the courtroom or watching online.

Paxton, a Republican, attached a brief in asking the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in California for permission to argue in support of Trump's temporary ban on travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries.

The New York - based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that to be convicted, a trader must know that the source received a benefit in exchange, and that such a benefit was «at least a potential gain of a pecuniary or similarly valuable nature.»

Judges at the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals, in San Francisco, will hear arguments from both parties on Tuesday.

In a decision released by the Baltimore Circuit Court, Judge Martin P. Welch wrote that the 35 - year - old was being granted a new trial because his initial council failed to properly cross-examine an expert from the state about the reliability of cell tower data that seemed to place him at the scene of the crime.

The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Labor Department overstepped its authority by creating the so - called fiduciary rule

But now, in an appeal filed with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, plaintiffs argue that the law does not protect companies that «manipulate reviews for their own profit.»

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals later affirmed that decision, ruling UPS had established a «pregnancy - blind policy.»

In the ruling, Pulaski County Circuit Court Judge Chris Piazza cited a recent Arkansas Supreme Court...

The district appealed, and in late May, the 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the lower court order in a landmark decision for LGBTQ rights.

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York also rejected an appeal by MP3tunes founder Michael Robertson, who was ordered to pay $ 12.2 million after a federal jury in 2014 found him liable for copyright infringement.

The National Retail Federation (NRF) formally filed an appeal with the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in the hopes to overturn a $ 5.7 billion settlement with Visa and MasterCard that was approved by a lower court in December, according to a statement released by the Washington D.C. - based trade group late Thursday.

The Illinois complaint was filed in Circuit Court of Cook County.

Davis sought Supreme Court review after the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in May that the failure to obtain a warrant did not violate Davis» right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures under the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

But a US Circuit Court of Appeals judge just threw out the verdict — He was to be sent to jail for 21 months and pay $ 15 million in fines — vindicating Reyes consistent claim of innocence.

The Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals concluded last August that federal prosecutors no longer need to show a «meaningfully close personal relationship» between the provider of insider intel and the recipient of the tip.

The ongoing effort turned particularly hot this week as Democratic senators moved to block two of his circuit court nominations while two of his other nominees to top courts were grilled during a Capitol Hill hearing.

He also took issue with the size of the hearing, adding that Michigan Supreme Court Judge Joan Larsen, nominated for the 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals, «got off fairly easy» with Barrett taking most of the heat.

The 2 - to - 1 ruling by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals cleared the way for Aereo Inc.'s expansion of its $ 8 - a-month service, which had been limited to New York City until this year.

On Thursday, Sens. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden of Oregon announced that they will block a judicial nominee for the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals who had been announced as Trump's pick just earlier that day.

So far this year, at least four Democrats refused to return blue slips for Trump's circuit court nominees: Franken, Sens. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden of Oregon, and Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin.

7th US Circuit Court of Appeals nominee Amy Coney Barrett, a Notre Dame law professor, was questioned intensely about her Catholic faith as a result of past writings expressing her beliefs on whether Catholic judges should recuse themselves from death - penalty cases if they believed they would be unable to impartially uphold the law, writing that — in limited situations — judges should step back in cases that conflict with their personal conscience.

House Democrats introduced a bill to restore the Federal Communications Commission's non-discrimination and no - blocking rules that were struck down by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.