Sentences with phrase «court judgeships»

However with budget cuts, limited court time and the failure to increase the number of family court judgeships as the number of docketed cases increases [there are studies showing that South Carolina family court judges have more docketed cases per judge than family court judges from any other state], the family court dockets have become increasingly unpredictable.

When they return in January, South Carolina legislators will elect judges for nine new circuit and family court judgeships, providing critics of this selection process with an opportunity to press their case.

A proposal in Kansas to give the state's governor a longer list of names to select from in picking trial court judges via the state's merit / commission system was amended on the House floor yesterday to require all applicants for district court judgeships be released and male almost all nominating commission proceedings public.

Gary Tilzer, a rep for five of the 11 candidates vying for six Brooklyn civil court judgeships, sent a letter to the state and city boards of elections, as well as to the Judicial Campaign Ethics Center with the Office of Court Administration, saying the borough Democratic chairman Frank Seddio is hosting an «illegal» fund - raiser.

Ballotpedia provides comprehensive ballot coverage of municipal elections in the nation's 100 largest cities by population, including races for trial court judgeships and county offices that overlap them.

And Supreme Court judgeships are arguably the apex.

The deadline for getting candidates off ballot lines by nominating them for state Supreme Court judgeships is Sept. 27.

In between are the choices for both of New York's federal Senate seats, state comptroller and attorney general and state Supreme Court, County Court and Family Court judgeships.

In the judicial races, eight candidates are seeking four state Supreme Court judgeships, each a 14 - year term.

Schaffer agreed to lie low in return for his goodies — including a split of Supreme Court judgeships by cross-endorsing each other's candidates — because the contest was important to Walsh for two reasons.

Three candidates are on the ballot for two Family Court judgeships.

The only way to get a candidate off the ballot at this point is for that person to die, move out of state or be nominated for a state Supreme Court judgeship.

To reiterate for the umpteenth time: The only way to get off the ballot line at this point is to die, move out of state or be nominated for a state Supreme Court judgeship anywhere in New York.

He didn't endorse either of his former opponents and won't be doing so, thanks to his newfound position as a candidate for a Bronx state Supreme Court judgeship.

-- Republican Assemblyman Alfred Graf was successful in his campaign for a Fifth District Court judgeship in Islip.

Although Doheny won the Independence Party's nomination, he was later nominated for a state Supreme Court judgeship, which removed him from the ballot and allowed the Independence Party to endorse Stefanik.

Come Thurs., Sept., 13th, primary elections will be held for, among other offices, the Surrogate Court judgeship in New York County.

Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos (R - Rockville Centre) said the political maneuvering shows «total disrespect for our judicial system by nominating this criminal to a Supreme Court judgeship.»

Adler critics also note he lost his race for a civil court judgeship partially as a result of a reform ticket pushed by the Working Families Party.

«Whatever Gilbert Taylor's qualifications may be, the appearance of using a Family Court judgeship as a soft landing for someone who botched the city's response to the homeless crisis is concerning,» said City Councilman Rory Lancman (D - Queens), chair of the Committee on Courts & Legal Services.

We have endorsed Louis Nock for civil court judgeship.

Al Graf — Republican Assemblyman Alfred Graf was successful in his campaign for a Fifth District Court judgeship in Islip.

New York's 13th district (R): Former Assemblyman Robert Straniere (R) was nominated for a New York Supreme Court judgeship this week.

Lazio was hastily nominated for a state Supreme Court judgeship, one of the get - off - the - ballot mechanisms that allowed the party to replace him with Paladino.

In 2010, for example, former Rep. Rick Lazio was nominated for a state Supreme Court judgeship in the Bronx after losing the GOP gubernatorial primary to Buffalo businessman Carl Paldino.

(In order to get Lynch off the ballot, the Monroe County Democrats agreed to nominate him for a state Supreme Court judgeship, which he did not win).

The Conservative Party, which endorsed Stefanik before the primary (incurring Doheny's wrath in the process), did the Independence Party a favor and nominated Doheny for a state Supreme Court judgeship in Kings County (otherwise known as Brooklyn).

Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos accused the Democrats of «showing a total disrespect for our judicial system by nominating this criminal to a Supreme Court judgeship.»

«It's outrageous that the Senate Democrats have sunk so low that they knowingly chose a candidate who was convicted of serious crimes and had his law license suspended, and now they are showing a total disrespect for our judicial system by nominating this criminal to a Supreme Court judgeship,» Skelos said.

If Lorigo had won the primary, he could have moved out of state or accepted a nomination for a New York State Supreme Court judgeship, clearing the line and allowing the Conservative Party to pick someone else through a committee.

In the Fifth District in Suffolk County, where Republicans dominate the electoral rolls, Al Graf, a former Republican assemblyman, left the seat for a district court judgeship.

FRANKFORT, Ky., June 25, 2014 — The Judicial Nominating Commission, led by Chief Justice of Kentucky John D. Minton Jr., today announced nominees to fill the vacant District Court judgeship for Anderson, Shelby and Spencer counties.

FRANKFORT, Ky. — The Judicial Nominating Commission, led by Chief Justice of Kentucky John D. Minton Jr., today announced nominees to fill the vacant Warren County Family Court judgeship.

FRANKFORT, Ky., Oct. 25, 2012 — The Judicial Nominating Commission, led by Chief Justice of Kentucky John D. Minton Jr., met today in Burkesville, Ky., to choose three nominees to fill the vacant Circuit Court judgeship in the 40th Judicial Circuit.

Not exact matches

The motion contains an affidavit by Town of Oyster Bay Republican Councilman Joseph Muscarella where he states that following the November, 2016 election, he and his brother, Thomas Muscarella, met at a Mineola restaurant with former Nassau Democratic Party official and now State Supreme Court Justice Robert McDonald, to congratulate him on being elected to a judgeship.

Glick says she's not backing any one specifically, but she says there are several openly gay judges in lower courts across the state, and at least one has been mentioned for a federal judgeship.

Manhattan Democratic Party chairman Keith Wright, an assemblyman also running for Congress, is coming under fire for pushing fellow Dems to back Phaedra Perry, law clerk to his brother, state Supreme Court Judge Geoffrey Wright, for a civil clerk judgeship.

After months of speculation, Grisanti has been nominated by Cuomo for a Court of Claims judgeship.

A lawyer who charges she was denied a judgeship in New York City as retaliation by Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration for her lawsuit against the Civilian Complaint Review Board is seeking to add a former judge of the state Court of Appeals, Carmen Ciparick, to the lawsuit.

Rep. Chris Collins is pushing his business partner's brother, John L. Sinatra Jr., for federal judgeship, stunning good government advocates and raising concerns among women lawyers because he would take the seat that the Obama administration wanted to fill with Buffalo's first - ever female district court judge.

But unlike judgeships confined to a single county — like family or surrogate's court --- there are no primaries for state Supreme Ccourt --- there are no primaries for state Supreme CourtCourt.

We are treated to an unopposed election of two State Supreme Court Justices in the Third Judicial District, where such judgeships are brokered like poker chips, and thus, like it or not (or even if you have no idea who they are) you will elect Andrew G. Ceresia and Michael Mackey to 14 year terms.

The general election for mayor of Buffalo shared the ballot with elections for two city judgeships, Erie County officials, local trial courts, and three statewide ballot measures.

A single judgeship is being filled for Supreme Court in the 3rd Judicial District, which includes Albany, Columbia, Greene, Rensselaer, Schoharie, Sullivan and Ulster counties.

Under the rules that govern judicial candidacies, he was allowed to do so only if nominated for another judgeship — and so a few days previous the Brooklyn branch of the Working Families party had nominated him for Supreme Court.

All candidates for Manhattan judgeships — including places of the state Supreme Court and Civil Court — face no opposition.

After the judicial reorganization of 1788, Wythe became sole Judge of the Chancery Court of Virginia but refused offers from President George Washington of a judgeship on the new federal courts.

Week ahead: Arizona House votes to add 2 more seats to Supreme Court; automatically adding judgeships to Missouri's Circuit Courts

Ciavarella wrote a letter this week to the court's current presiding judge, Chester Muroski, acknowleding «that I have disgraced my judgeship.»

The judgeship will remain unfilled unless she is permanently banned from the bench and the Supreme Court appoints a replacement, according to the Tribune.