Sentences with phrase «federal judge in the state»

By tradition the senior member of Congress who is of the same party as the President gets to nominate the U.S. Attorneys in their state and is consulted on the proposed nominations of Federal judges and generally has an unofficial veto for the nomination of Federal judges in their state.

Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Walker clerked for the Honorable U.W. Clemon, the first black Federal Judge in the State of Alabama and a civil rights icon.

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Granting the CFTC's request for a preliminary injunction against the defendants who allegedly engaged in deception and fraud involving virtual currency spot markets, Judge Weinstein noted that» [u] ntil Congress clarifies the matter,» the CFTC has «concurrent authority» along with other state and federal administrative agencies and civil and criminal courts over transactions in virtual currency.

WASHINGTON, May 1 - A District of Columbia federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by state bank regulators against the U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich wrote in her decision tossing out the case, issued late on Mojudge dismissed a lawsuit brought by state bank regulators against the U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich wrote in her decision tossing out the case, issued late on MoJudge Dabney Friedrich wrote in her decision tossing out the case, issued late on Monday.

Judge Andreas Korbmacher said on Thursday the country's highest federal administrative court would rule on Feb. 27 on an appeal brought by German states against bans imposed by local courts in Stuttgart and Duesseldorf over poor air quality.

Nevada's governor, a former federal judge named Brian Sandoval, had run for office in 2010 promising to attract jobs to the state, desperate to expand beyond its casino industry after unemployment topped 14 %.

Heather Dietrick, president and general counsel of Gawker Media, said in a statement that soon after Mr. Bollea sued the company in 2012, three state appeals court judges and a federal judge «repeatedly ruled that Gawker's post was newsworthy» under the First Amendment.

A federal judge ordered that Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach be held in contempt of court, and Senator Bernie Sanders referenced rapper Cardi B in a tweet.

Mr. Trump may be hoping that his chances of keeping the dispute in arbitration and out of public view are better before a federal judge than a state one.

Meanwhile, the federal judge in Texas overseeing the three lawsuits filed in the state against DOL has set a Nov. 17 date to hear oral arguments from both sides.

In a blow to independent contractors for transportation companies seeking to be classified as employees of the firms they work with, a federal district judge in Massachusetts ruled the state's independent - contractor law failed to override a 1994 federal statute pre-empting state regulation of a motor carrier's rates, routes and serviceIn a blow to independent contractors for transportation companies seeking to be classified as employees of the firms they work with, a federal district judge in Massachusetts ruled the state's independent - contractor law failed to override a 1994 federal statute pre-empting state regulation of a motor carrier's rates, routes and servicein Massachusetts ruled the state's independent - contractor law failed to override a 1994 federal statute pre-empting state regulation of a motor carrier's rates, routes and services.

Asking a federal judge in the United States, Waymo is seeking to delay the trial against Uber scheduled in October.

One of the suits resulted in an order by a federal judge on Aug. 22 for the State Department to provide a timetable to hand over 15,000 previously unreleased emails.

Gawker argued that Hogan was court - shopping and tried to remove the case back to federal court, but a federal judge remanded it back to the state court in March 2013.

On March 6, 2018, Judge Jack B. Weinstein of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York ruled that virtual currencies are commodities under the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) and therefore subject to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's (CFTC) anti-fraud and anti-manipulation enforcement authority.1 Granting the CFTC's request for a preliminary injunction against the defendants who allegedly engaged in deception and fraud involving virtual currency spot markets, Judge Weinstein noted that «[u] ntil Congress clarifies the matter,» the CFTC has «concurrent authority» along with other state and federal administrative agencies and civil and criminal courts over transactions in virtual currency.2

New York Supreme Court Judge Jennifer G. Schecter rejected that argument on Tuesday, arguing that the logic of Clinton v. Jones was just as applicable in state court as in federal court.

They relate to the state of the economy, the attractiveness of various asset classes and how the Federal Reserve (Fed) should be judged in meeting its policy goals.

Yahoo has been ordered by a federal judge to face much of a lawsuit in the United States claiming that the personal information of all 3 billion users was compromised in a series of data breaches.

To them, it is simply irrelevant that no federal judge (prior to Rothstein) had ever before found a right to die in the Due Process Clause, just as it is irrelevant that every state in the union, save one, forbids assisted suicide.

A federal judge will hear arguments Monday on a temporary restraining order against an Oklahoma referendum that would ban the use of Islamic religious law in state courts.

That wasn't even Olson's case, but with assists from a federal district court judge who came out as being in a same - sex relationship only after ruling and retiring, and elected officials who chose to forgo their traditional duty to vigorously defend state law, Olson and Boies did succeed in disenfranchising millions of Californians on a procedural technicality.

With federal judges in two highly conservative states striking down «defense of marriage» laws as unconstitutional this January, more church - state experts are advising same - sex marriage opponents that the marriage battleground should shift to religious freedom.

A federal judge in Oklahoma has issued an order putting on hold the certification of a ballot measure that forbids state courts from considering or using international laws, as well as Sharia, or Islamic law.

CNN: «Choose Life» license plates ruled unconstitutional in North Carolina A federal judge ruled that North Carolina's new «Choose Life» license plates are unconstitutional because the state does not offer a pro-choice alternative.

The controversy over the injunction issued in October 1997 by Alabama Federal District Judge Ira M. DeMent restricting religious activity in public schools, as well as the continuing controversy in the state concerning Judge Roy Moore's courtroom display of the Ten Commandments, can be....

Last year, a federal immigration judge ordered 15 Iraqi Chaldean Christians deported for immigration fraud when they sought refuge in the United States after they had already been granted safe haven in Europe.

Kristof linked this to the judicial resistance in Alabama to a federal judge's decision that the Constitution of the United States contains a right for men to marry men, and women to marry women.

But in 1990, the Lake Michigan Federation convinced a federal judge that the state's sale of 18 acres of lake bottom to Loyola was illegal because the transaction would benefit a private interest rather than the public.

Average Joe's serve hard time in federal prison for falsifying identity documents, yet it is done legally all over this country in vital records» offices with the permission of judges and barbaric, antiquated state laws.

SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters)- A U.S. appeals court on Friday denied Utah's bid to further block legal recognition of about 1,300 same - sex weddings performed after the state's gay marriage ban was briefly lifted by a federal judge in December.

Alabama marriage officials find themselves in a very confusing position right now, because a federal court declared the state's marriage ban unconstitutional, but then the Alabama Supreme Court declared that the gay marriage ban was still just great and legal, and now all the probate judges are like, «Wait, who do we listen to?»

The judge, who noted that the Coroner Law was an enactment of the Lagos State House of Assembly, which is constitutionally empowered to make laws in the state, said «the Federal High Court could not dabble into the affairs of the state and start dishing out injunctive orders.&rState House of Assembly, which is constitutionally empowered to make laws in the state, said «the Federal High Court could not dabble into the affairs of the state and start dishing out injunctive orders.&rstate, said «the Federal High Court could not dabble into the affairs of the state and start dishing out injunctive orders.&rstate and start dishing out injunctive orders.»

A federal judge has ordered the State Department to release previously redacted information in Hillary Clinton emails concerning the Obama administration's response in the immediate aftermath of the terror attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi in 2012.

Recent rulings by federal and state courts have cast judges as the most potent critics of stop - and - frisk, raising questions about whether the city has sidestepped the Constitution in the drive to keep crime rates low.

The duel primary structure dates back to a 2012 ruling in which a federal judge moved the state's congressional - level primary to June in order to comply with the federal MOVE Act, which requires timely access to military and overseas absentee ballots.

The Yonkers rapper, whose real name is Earl Simmons, surrendered Thursday and is expected to appear Friday in Manhattan federal court before United States Magistrate Judge Andrew J. Peck, authorities said.

Art. 3116, however, limits the sum that may be charged candidates for certain posts, such as the offices of district judge, judge of the Court of Civil Appeals, and senator and representative in the state and federal legislatures, and for some counties fees are fixed by Arts. 3116a - 3116d, 1939 Supp., and 3116e, 3116f, 1942 Supp.

The contentious redistricting process that changed political representation in Queens came to a close Monday when a federal judge signed off on the new congressional lines, days after Gov. Andrew Cuomo did the same at the state level.

He is now gone from our lives, his Assembly seat as vacant as his eyes, completing his shuffle from Manhattan State Supreme Court, where he began as a law secretary in 1971, to the federal courthouse on Foley Square, where 12 of his peers finally got a chance to judge seven of his felonies.

Few of Trump's actions have touched a nerve among Latinos across the political spectrum in the United States quite like his pardon of Arpaio, the former Arizona sheriff who was found guilty of criminal contempt after defying a federal judge's order to stop targeting Latinos based solely on suspicion of their immigration status.

A federal judge in Hawaii ruled that the Trump administration's temporary ban on travelers from six predominantly Muslim countries and on refugees should not prevent grandparents and other close relatives of residents from entering the United States.

A federal judge has cleared the way for an employee at the state Office for People with Developmental Disabilities to continue a lawsuit in which he alleges he was targeted for speaking out about problems at facilities for the developmentally disabled.

Manhattan Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh, who sits on the Assembly's Election Law Committee, said Trump's comments are discouraging in light of the fact that there are federal courts across the country with judges appointed by Republicans and Democrats saying that states» voter laws are unconstitutional because they target people based on their race and ethnicity.

On Tuesday, Federal District Court Judge Kenneth M. Karas declared a mistrial in the corruption case involving New York State Senator Malcolm Smith and former Vice Chairman of the Queens County Republican Committee Vincent Tabone.

But political hopeful Philip Pidot is pressing for a new primary in federal court after a state court judge ruled he was eligible to run as a Republican ballot but there was not enough time to get Pidot's name on the primary ballot by last Tuesday.

But lawyer Richard Morvillo assured a federal judge that Howe will tell the truth when he takes the stand next week in the bribery trial of a former high - ranking state official and three business executives.

A Brooklyn federal judge last week sentenced former state Sen. Shirley Huntley to a year and one day in prison for stealing taxpayer dollars,?

A federal judge in Washington dismissed a State Department foreign services officer's age discrimination suit against Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

ALBANY — A federal judge has rejected state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's lawsuit seeking to force a full environmental review before the Delaware River Basin Commission allows natural gas drilling in a watershed that provides drinking water for millions of New Yorkers.

The state would drop that lawsuit as part of the settlement agreement with the Oneidas, and that dismissal would require the approval of the federal judge in the trust land case.