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The court had proved willing to adjust the boundaries of the federal system to accommodate demands for regulation.

In California, with the nation's largest prison system, a federal district court found in 2005 that the parole board «operated under a sub rosa policy that all murderers [typically serving life terms] be found unsuitable for parole.»

The Federal District Court's decision favoring doctor - assisted suicide, we said, could be fatal not only to many people who are old, sick, or disabled, but also to popular support for our present system of government.

The ex-Staten Island congressman, who spent seven months behind bars for tax evasion, is asking an appeals court to turn his disbarment from the federal system into a one - year suspension instead.

But a day later, he would not specify what legal action would look like — though he maintained that he and other mayors across the country would fight in court — nor explain how the city would handle retaliatory cuts to federal funding for the NYPD, the New York City Housing Authority and the city's public hospital system.

«The settlement provides an important example for other correctional systems around the country,» Manhattan federal court judge Laura Taylor Swain said, calling the settlement between the city, the U.S. Justice Department and a group of inmates «groundbreaking.»

Michael Grimm, the ex-Staten Island congressman who spent seven months behind bars for tax evasion, is asking an appeals court to turn his disbarment from the federal system into a one - year suspension instead.

That challenge lingered in the court system well after the freeze was lifted in 2007 and was not resolved until 2013 when a federal judge ruled not only was the freeze justified, but that the district did not need to give teachers credit on the pay scale for the years the freeze was enacted.

The 11 - page ruling, by Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein of Federal District Court in Manhattan, found that the city had overstepped its bounds in requiring, as part of a licensing process, that carwash owners buy a special bond within a two - tiered system: $ 30,000 for those whose workers were unionized or employers who agreed to monitoring, and $ 150,000 for all others.

With new challenges to agency fees now making their way through the federal court system, and a new, conservative justice on the high court, the issue could be ripe for a definitive resolution.

State officials and courts have already grappled with many of these issues, and creating a federal right to education would destabilize policies and decisions that have shaped local school systems for generations,» they say, noting that unlike the federal Constitution, all 50 state constitutions contain provisions that explicitly address education.

Washington — The parents of a learning - disabled child had no right under federal law to unilaterally move their son from a public school to a private school at a local school system's expense, even though the private school was subsequently found to be the appropriate placement for the child, a lawyer for a Massachusetts school committee told the U.S. Supreme Court last week.

In the early 1970s, the federal courts ordered a number of states to pay school desegregation costs, but these rulings were limited in number and had little overall effect on state systems for school funding.

A federal appellate court has struck down a system for assigning students to public high schools in Seattle that uses race and ethnicity as a factor.

The ED could order a state to respond, but if the department elected not to hear an appeal, the complainant could file suit in state court, an odd approach for a federal law to take, given that in our federal system the United States does not define the jurisdiction of state courts.

Lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union went before a federal appeals court last week in an effort to stop what they say is an unconstitutional system of sex - segregated classes at a southern Louisiana school.

«But even when successful, such suits still may not bring relief for the district, such as in Sumter County where a federal judge found fault with Alabama's funding system in an 800 - page opinion but also found the county was not entitled to relief from the court,» says Tuck.

In Lee County Schools system in rural Alabama, for example, which had years earlier convinced a federal court that it had eliminated the effects of segregation, one of the four public high schools served more than 90 percent black students — even though the district student population was only 23 percent black.

Prior to that, he worked as a professor at the University of Southern California, and a federal court monitor for the special education consent decree in the Los Angeles school system.

Since the landmark 1973 U.S. Supreme Court Decision in San Antonio School District v. Rodriguez, which established that public education is not a right under the federal Constitution, state courts have been the battlegrounds for resolving disputes regarding public education finance systems.

Federal courts issue desegregation orders when they find that districts or states are maintaining separate educational facilities and systems for students of different races.

Recall from a prior post that a set of teachers in the Houston Independent School District (HISD), with the support of the Houston Federation of Teachers (HFT) are taking their district to federal court to fight for their rights as professionals, and how their value - added scores, derived via the Education Value - Added Assessment System (EVAAS), have allegedly violated them.

I think the «American System» overall would work better were U.S. Courts ---- Federal and State ---- more willing, and more able, to assess to plaintiffs the defendants» costs and expenses for bringing suits which are deemed to be frivolous.

The thoughtful, detailed analysis and judgment of the proposed move by the federal government to create a national securities regulator shows how little improvement there really is likely to be for the individual investor in solving key problems: high fees for mutual funds, costly access to government of Canada securities, lack of fiduciary responsibility by the industry towards investors, inadequate civil court recourse against misbehaving financial firms, priority given to financial system protection over investor interests.

The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in federal court, seeks damages from the five largest publicly - traded oil companies — BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell — to help pay for the city's work adapting to climate change, including coastal protections and upgrading its sewer system.

The parties to a putative class action lawsuit claiming that the federal courts» PACER system routinely overcharges for document downloads have asked the U.S. Court of Federal Claims for more time to engage in settlement discussions, agreeing that discussions so far have been prodfederal courts» PACER system routinely overcharges for document downloads have asked the U.S. Court of Federal Claims for more time to engage in settlement discussions, agreeing that discussions so far have been prodFederal Claims for more time to engage in settlement discussions, agreeing that discussions so far have been productive.

Lawyers have a love - hate relationship with PACER, the federal courts» system for electronic access to records.

My latest «Ambrogi on Tech» column for the ABA Journal looks at PacerPro, a better way to search the federal courts» Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) system.

«There is a real hunger for this data,» says Lissner, adding that he expects the Supreme Court's system to be a better service than PACER, which provides public access to the lower federal courts.

LawToolBox is an all - in - one court rules provider, custom deadline template provider, and deadline management system that offers solutions for law firms and legal departments to automatically calculate deadlines for matters or projects based on the rules of civil procedure for state and federal courts in all 50 states.

For example, in Garford Pty Ltd. v. Dywidag Systems International, Canada, Ltd, 2010 FC 997, a request to add claims for unjust enrichment were denied in the Federal Court as being outside the Courts jurisdictiFor example, in Garford Pty Ltd. v. Dywidag Systems International, Canada, Ltd, 2010 FC 997, a request to add claims for unjust enrichment were denied in the Federal Court as being outside the Courts jurisdictifor unjust enrichment were denied in the Federal Court as being outside the Courts jurisdiction.

The most striking example of this is PACER, the system for accessing electronic records of the federal courts.

Participated in obtaining a summary judgment for a hospital affiliated with a national health system in a physician's multimillion dollar federal court discrimination lawsuit, and obtaining an affirmance on appeal before the Eleventh Circuit Court of Apcourt discrimination lawsuit, and obtaining an affirmance on appeal before the Eleventh Circuit Court of ApCourt of Appeals

Since a 1947 constitutional revision rewrote the state's judiciary article, New Jersey has operated under a modified federal system for appointment to the state's top courts (Supreme, Appellate Division of the Superior Court, and Superior Court) where governors appoint and the senate confirms any qualified person for an initial term of 7 years.

In response to the policy argument against allowing relitigation of class certification, the Court noted that stare decisis and comity are the legal system's remedies for repetitive litigation that falls outside of the rules of preclusion, and that once a class action is removed to federal court under the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 (CAFA), 28 U.SCourt noted that stare decisis and comity are the legal system's remedies for repetitive litigation that falls outside of the rules of preclusion, and that once a class action is removed to federal court under the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 (CAFA), 28 U.Scourt under the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 (CAFA), 28 U.S.C.??

After nearly a year of effort, the Free Law Project has downloaded every opinion and order from the federal courts» PACER system and has made them available for search through its RECAP archive of PACER documents.

In March in my ABA Journal column, I reviewed PacerPro, a free service for searching the federal courts» Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) system.

The Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to providing free, public access to primary legal materials, has announced plans to download all of the free opinions and order available on PACER, the federal courts» system for electronic access to court records.

The federal judiciary violated federal law when it used Pacer fees for courtroom technology and other projects that don't provide the public with access to information stored in the courts» electronic docketing system, a federal judge has ruled.

A lawsuit claiming that the federal courts» PACER system routinely overcharges for document downloads has survived the government's motion to dismiss.

Rosemary Barkett, the first female Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court and former federal judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit believes that the court system is not an appropriate place to resolve divorce - related matCourt and former federal judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit believes that the court system is not an appropriate place to resolve divorce - related matCourt of Appeals for the 11th Circuit believes that the court system is not an appropriate place to resolve divorce - related matcourt system is not an appropriate place to resolve divorce - related matters.

In the mid 1980's The Florida Bar, the Governor of Florida and the Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court appointed a Commission, The Florida Bar's Special Commission on Access to the Legal System, to assess and make recommendations on the problem of lack of adequate access to the legal system by the poor and middle class The Commission found that cuts in federal support for legal assistance to the poor had greatly exacerbated the access problem and one of the commission's recommendations was to amend the Rules Regulating the Florida Bar making pro bono legal assistance to the poor mandSystem, to assess and make recommendations on the problem of lack of adequate access to the legal system by the poor and middle class The Commission found that cuts in federal support for legal assistance to the poor had greatly exacerbated the access problem and one of the commission's recommendations was to amend the Rules Regulating the Florida Bar making pro bono legal assistance to the poor mandsystem by the poor and middle class The Commission found that cuts in federal support for legal assistance to the poor had greatly exacerbated the access problem and one of the commission's recommendations was to amend the Rules Regulating the Florida Bar making pro bono legal assistance to the poor mandatory.

They also represent the state courts in their relations with the federal court system and serve as the principal mouthpiece for the state courts on Capitol Hill.

Gideon spawned systems for court appointment of criminal defense lawyers in every state and in the federal courts.

As a rule, each State can make its own rules for its court system, and the overarching Federal system has its own rules as well, although they run off of...

The federal district court in Tyler, Texas, did not commit reversible error in entering judgment against ALE USA (formerly known as Alcatel - Lucent Enterprise USA) for infringement of networking patents asserted by Chrimar Systems, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fedfederal district court in Tyler, Texas, did not commit reversible error in entering judgment against ALE USA (formerly known as Alcatel - Lucent Enterprise USA) for infringement of networking patents asserted by Chrimar Systems, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federcourt in Tyler, Texas, did not commit reversible error in entering judgment against ALE USA (formerly known as Alcatel - Lucent Enterprise USA) for infringement of networking patents asserted by Chrimar Systems, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the FederCourt of Appeals for the FederalFederal Ci

Defended international manufacturer of steel fabricating system in federal court for multi-million dollar property damage claim arising out of massive molten steel spill and involving design defect claims.

Prior to joining IPF, Ms. Dolan spent 5.5 years with the Kentucky's statewide public defender system, the Department of Public Advocacy (DPA), litigating post-conviction cases for capital and non-capital clients in both state and federal court.

These common - sense reforms will make litigation simpler, less expensive for taxpayers, and more in line with the vast majority of states and the federal court system.

Also, it occurs to me that perhaps the federal system ought also to be on this list because three federal executions scheduled for the Spring were postponed while Hill was being considered by the Supreme Court, and I have not heard any word to suggest that these executions are moving forward.