Sentences with phrase «court jurist»

The Superior Court jurist, the Honorable Norman B. Ackley became a «regular» at WARM meetings and, ultimately, their mentor and guide.

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer announced today he would vote against the confirmation of Judge Neil Gorsuch, President Donald Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court, and would encourage his 48 - member Democratic conference to do the same — arguing the 10th Circuit Court jurist had a «deep - seated conservative ideology» and lacked «a strong independent backbone.»

Schumer said he decided to vote «no» on Gorsuch, and will encourage fellow Democrats to do the same, because he thinks the 10th Circuit Court jurist has a «deep - seated conservative ideology» and lacks «a strong independent backbone.»

«American Muslims should enjoy the freedom to build their places of worship wherever permitted by local zoning laws,» the retired Supreme Court jurist said at a luncheon where he was honored by the National Japanese American Memorial Foundation.

Not exact matches

From then on, jurists have appealed to the idea of a «living Constitution» to explain how the document retains relevance and authority despite the Supreme Court's having enslaved it to the changing desires of the electorate.

New Deal jurists pointed to the court's willingness to accommodate constitutionally dubious moral reforms to demonstrate the ultimate subjectivity of judicial decisions and the need for constitutional interpretation to evolve along with social and economic realities.

Should the amendment fail and Cuomo be re-elected to a second term, he would likely be able to replace the entire Court of Appeals with his own jurists.

Having a jurist on the Court that is a member of the LGBTQ community has been long overdue and further shows the State's commitment to ensuring all New Yorkers are represented,» Glick said in a statement.

«The Court of Appeals has a storied history of thoughtful jurists who add their perspectives to the understanding of the law.

In page 219, the author talks about the origin of two - tier theory of free expression and writes that it has been first suggested by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935), the Jurist who served the Supreme Court from 1902 to 1932, and later advocated by Robert H. Jackson (1892 - 1952) who was Attorney General (1940 - 1941) and serving in the Supreme Court (1941 - 1954).

NIgeria Politics Online gathered that the court was informed on Monday about the jurist's death and the movement of his corpse to the Garki hospital.

Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who appointed Abdus - Salaam to the state's Court of Appeals in 2013, called her a «trailblazing jurist.»

The president will announce his nominee to the Supreme Court today Wednesday, just over a month after the death of conservative jurist Antonin Scalia left a vacancy on the bench.

Judge Robert Smith, a well - respected jurist appointed by former Gov. George Pataki, will leave the Court of Appeals at the end of 2014 because he's reached the mandatory retirement age of 70.

In Bonventre's view, Cuomo has so far put together a coherent, capable Court of Appeals that includes jurists with both Democratic and Republican backgrounds, as well as those with experience in both law enforcement and defendants» rights.

Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas said «Sheila Abdus - Salaam was a groundbreaking jurist whose distinguished service on the Court of Appeals, the New York State Supreme Court, as a public defender and public servant made our communities stronger and more just.»

Her critique of Gorsuch this morning in many ways echoed the one Schumer made last night: that the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals jurist is simply too conservative to adjudicate impartially.

Gorsuch was generally seen as one of the more moderate and less provocative jurists on Trump's docket of potential nominees, and the Senate — Schumer included — voted unanimously to confirm him to Colorado's 10th Circuit Court in 2006.

The state's highest court has schooled its Manhattan colleagues by overturning three rulings that reinstated bad - apple teachers while slapping the jurists for «overreach.»

The Manhattan Housing Court's advisory council, which reviews its judges after each four - year term, recently ruled that jurist Susan Avery should get the boot — as it catalogued years of complaints against her, sources said.

But some jurists think the 27 percent increase over the next three years is insufficient, and are urging court administrators to keep in place a $ 10,000 stipend that was provided to them in recognition of the fact that they had not received a salary hike since January 1999.

A court clerk has filed a federal suit that charges former top Staten Island Administrative Judge Judith McMahon «conspired» with her husband, the borough's district attorney, to judge shop on narcotics cases to make sure prosecutors got a sympathetic jurist.

President Obama announced his nomination of Merrick B. Garland, a centrist appeals court judge, daring Republican senators to refuse consideration of a jurist who is highly regarded throughout Washington.

Cuomo must make clear that he expects the commission to present him with a broader sampling of New York's legal minds — including a fair share of jurists who may be more philosophically conservative than he is — then pick the best, brightest and most balanced court he can find.

«These tremendously qualified jurists bring a wealth of knowledge and diverse experience to New York's Appellate Court,» Governor Cuomo said.

«Well it is a very sad day for our community when a jurist, an elected Supreme Court Justice, who was, by all accounts respected by both the attorneys of our community and his peers, demonstrates that he has betrayed the trust given to him by us,» stated Acting Erie County District Attorney Michael Flaherty.

But on Friday, the Assembly unveiled a plan with a peculiar benchmark: It would allow legislators to earn 40 percent of the annual salary of New York State Supreme Court justices, which starts at $ 174,000, though some jurists earn more.

BY ANDY HUMM Justice Doris Ling - Cohan, a distinguished jurist and champion of the rights of tenants, immigrants, and LGBT people, was re-nominated by acclamation for a 14 - year term to the New York State Supreme Court by delegates to Manhattan's County Democratic Judicial Convention on September 22.

The respected jurists of the Supreme Court who threw away Wike's infantile application to stop the Governorship Petition Election Tribunal, are they APC members?»

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The governor entered the Court of Appeals through the same door as its judges, sitting beside the robed jurists as he gazed down upon the state's attorney general, comptroller and prosecutors in the pews below.

Lazarus pointed to Brett Kavanaugh, a conservative judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, as an example of a jurist who «is not ready to give EPA a lot of deference if they're taking language which was crafted at one time and trying to push it at the edges to deal with a problem of another time, like climate change.»

While my own position as a jurist precludes me from linking his past opinions to cases currently pending before the Supreme Court or headed in that direction, I'll sketch out some features of his jurisprudence and describe specific decisions with relevance for education — and leave the prognosticating to others.

Since Neil M. Gorsuch was nominated for a U.S. Supreme Court seat left vacant by the death of conservative jurist Antonin Scalia a year ago, the search for tea leaves has been relentless.

As many of you know by now, Jones, a former U.S. Attorney and scion of a political family that includes famed judge and U.S. Senator Howell Heflin, won what was previously considered an unlikely victory over Moore, a jurist who was twice removed from his role as chief justice of the Iron State's supreme court for willfully ignoring failing to enforce federal rulings.

Filling Supreme Court vacancies with jurists who believe in our Constitution, repealing and replacing ObamaCare, reforming the politicized IRS, DOJ, and FBI, immigration issues, and fixing the VA and incomprehensible tax code are all high on every list.

It would certainly be ab unworkable proposition in a court, where jurists would be forced to adjudicate scientific arguments, something they are unqualified to do.

Lawyers in formal court dress mingled with pot - banging demonstrators of all ages in a central Montreal square yesterday after some 500 jurists took to the streets to protest against Quebec's Bill 78.

While Moveon.org is recruiting signatures for a petition against Supreme Court nominee John Roberts, and USA Today is reporting how allegedly popular this previously popularly unheard - of jurist has become overnight (hat - tip to Jim Lindgren, the source of both links), Roberts keeps on... working.

On Blackprof, Adrien Wing laments the message sent by halving the number of women jurists on the Supreme Court.

«Botsford's keen intellect and extraordinary abilities as a jurist enhance the outstanding reputation of our state's highest court.

As this summary from Jurist points out, Carhart represents the first time that the Supreme Court has affirmed a complete ban on an abortion procedure.

And talk of his hard - fought appeal before the Supreme Judicial Court still makes Satin's eyes light up as he recalls how enamored he was by the stature of that panel of jurists.

Working in cooperation the World Jurist Association, American Legal Publishing helped the Nigerian Supreme Court make its opinions more accessible to the public by placing its opinions and judgments on their Intranet site.

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This short article, written by a long - time jurist on the Arkansas Supreme Court on the occasion of four new judges being appointed to that Court, presents a general outline on opinion writing.

Mark Hamblett has the story at the New York Law Journal, and here's a link to the opinion, Byrne v. Rutledge, authored by a panel consisting of three of the four female jurists on the court — Judges Amalya Kearse, Reena Raggi, and Debra Livingston (this fact mentioned for purposes of trivia only; I am not suggesting that the gender makeup of the panel had any bearing on the outcome of the case, so calm down).

«I look forward to the contribution that this distinguished jurist will make to the work of the Court.

Chief Justice Mulligan was recognized, according to NCSC's announcement, for his «impressive abilities not only as a jurist, but as an innovative court manager.»

Authors Charlotte Gray and Roy McMurtry in particular helped draw a record crowd that included among many notable jurists, Aharon Barak, a former chief justice of Israel, and Rosalie Abella, a justice of the Supreme Court of Canada and the leading cheerleader for legal research and writing in Canada.