Sentences with phrase «seventh circuit judge»

Three of my favorite clips available via the site are Seventh Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner («Judges are impatient, except for new judges, who may actually care what you have to say»); Ninth Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski («I won't read blockquotes, but thanks for letting my mind drift to thoughts of snowboarding in Aspen»); and Seventh Circuit Chief Judge Frank H. Easterbrook («To become a better writer, read the work of good writers, not the work of lawyers»).

U.S. District Judge Ruben Castillo granted Klinger's bid for summary judgment in December, and the Seventh Circuit affirmed his ruling, following Seventh Circuit Judge Richard Posner's characterization of the estate's argument as a «very aggressive attempt to enlarge copyright law» during oral arguments.

In the June 9, 2014 issue of The New Republic, Seventh Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner has this review of Robert A. Ferguson «s book, «Inferno: An Anatomy of American Punishment.»

As authority, Garner quotes Seventh Circuit Judge Frank Easterbrook's exhortation to emerging legal writers that they dump the lawbooks and start reading well - written periodicals:

Judge Posner is a Seventh Circuit judge, and used to be this appeals court's Chief Judge.

According to WisconsinWatchdog.org, arguments before Seventh Circuit judges in January focused on whether prosecutors are immune from the litigation and if public employees sacrifice their First Amendment rights because they are public employees.

Not exact matches

That hearing was followed up by Trump announcing his seventh wave of judicial nominees, an additional 15 names that are about to be submitted to the Senate, bringing the total number of district and circuit court judges he's nominated to roughly 50 — blowing far past the number of judicial nominations made at this stage of a presidency by any recent predecessors.

«No evidence of this belief has been presented,» wrote judge Richard Posner of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.

Richard Posner, a judge of the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, in a New York Times op - ed co-authored December 2 with Law Professor Eric Segall, takes Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia to task for threatening America with a «majoritarian theocracy» because of his repeated....

The new panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit agreed with a lower court judge who ruled last summer that prosecutors had coerced Dassey into his video - taped confession, which was played on the show.

Richard Posner, a judge of the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, in a New York Times op - ed co-authored December 2 with Law Professor Eric Segall, takes Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia to task for threatening America with a «majoritarian theocracy» because of his repeated dissents, since Lawrence v. Texas, against the expansion of homosexual «rights» as a matter of Constitutional solicitude.

Barrett Nomination — Confirmation — Vote Confirmed (55 - 43, 2 Not Voting) The Senate confirmed the nomination of Amy C. Barrett to be U.S. circuit judge for the Seventh Ccircuit judge for the Seventh CircuitCircuit.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, acting in a case that has been closely monitored across the nation, has upheld a federal district judge's order freezing $ 47.5 - million in Education Department funds pending the Reagan Administration's payment of desegregation aid to Chicago's schools.

Both a federal district judge and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit had ruled in favor of a student who had challenged the display of Warner Sallman's «Head of Christ» at Bloomingdale...

A three - judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled unanimously against the principals earlier this month.

Employers outside of the Seventh Circuit's jurisdiction would be wise to pay careful attention to the concurrence in Golden and consider whether the views expressed by Judge Rovner may win the day in other circuits.

«Wikipedia is a terrific resource,» said Judge Richard A. Posner of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, in Chicago.

The latest issue of the Yale Law Journal contains a supremely sane and caustic attack by Judge Richard Posner of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals on the tendency of the Blue Book (Uniform System of Citation) to proliferate increasing thickets of rules and increasingly trivial sub-rules.

At the time, then AG Edward Levi commented that each of Judge Stevens opinions on the Seventh Circuit represented a «pearl» in a string of beautiful decisions.

Prior to joining Barnes & Thornburg in 1973, Jim had been law clerk to then Associate Justice William H. Rehnquist, October Term 1972, and before that to Judge John S. Hastings, then Senior Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, 1970 - 71.

ALJs are Article I judges, not fancy Article III judges like Judge Richard Posner and the rest of the Seventh Circuit.

That's not the judge's job, said the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.

In Boyd, Judge Posner and the Seventh Circuit is doing all the investigation (about a state crime, no less) to justify the defendant's increased incarceration.

Judge Richard Posner, who sits on of the Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago, has launched an aggressive assault on legalese.

In his review of the 19th edition (2010) of the Bluebook — «The Bluebook Blues», Yale Law Journal 120 (2011): 850 - 861 — Judge Richard Posner of the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, had the following to say:

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Claimants appealed, and Circuit Judge Posner on behalf of a Seventh Circuit panel reversed the fee denial.

A recent Seventh Circuit opinion — authored, predictably, by Judge Posner — addressed the potential conflicts in detail in chastising what it considered a lower court's less - than - diligent review of a coupon settlement.

Also today, by means of a separate opinion issued by the same three - judge panel, the Seventh Circuit upheld the termination of the active pilots» pension plan as of December 30, 2004.

Before joining the firm, Kevin clerked for Judge Richard A. Posner of the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

In one of his final opinions as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, he expressed frustration at the dismissal of one self - represented litigant's lawsuit, writing that the prisoner, Michael Davis, «needs help — needs it bad — needs a lawyer desperately.»

But like a trial judge who booted the case in December, the Seventh Circuit said last month that it lacked «any basis in statute or case law for extending a copyright beyond its expiration» and the appeal «border [ed] on the quixotic.»

Recently retired, Judge Ann Claire Williams has also shared her story as the first African American woman appointed to the district court in Illinois and in the Seventh Circuit.

The Senate on Monday confirmed Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP partner Michael Y. Scudder Jr. and U.S. District Judge Amy J. St. Eve for the Seventh Circuit in a rare bipartisan vote for President Donald Trump's nominees.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has issued an opinion in which Judge Easterbrook declares, «[t] he GPL and open - source have nothing to fear from the antitrust laws.»

Most relevant to the work of the Commission on Professionalism, Judge Bauer shares how he led the charge to develop the Standards for Professional Conduct Within the Seventh Circuit.

«Judge Richard Posner of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has unleashed another zinger at class - action attorneys, trashing a settlement over joint - pain pills that would have paid attorneys $ 2 million in fees, more than double what their clients got.»

She was appointed to the bankruptcy bench for the Eastern District of Wisconsin by the Seventh Circuit on July 5, 2005, and served as chief judge of the Eastern District of Wisconsin bankruptcy court from July 2010 to December 2014.

You can access today's ruling of a unanimous three - judge ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit at this link.

A sharply divided panel of the Seventh Circuit, led by Judge Posner, addressed the issue of such research in deciding an appeal by a pro se prisoner alleging his civil rights had been violated by inadequate medical treatment.21 Judge Posner's majority opinion reversing the judgment below cited facts from various extrarecord medical websites, including Wikipedia.

(One notable exception, as you'll see from the list, is the Seventh Circuit's Judge Posner.)

There are other great candidates out there from the Seventh Circuit's Judge Diane Wood to the Eighth Circuit's Jane Kelly to the Ninth Circuit's Sidney Thomas to California Supreme Court Justice Goodwin Liu and many, many more.

Clerk to Judge David Hamilton, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, 2015 — 16; Associate, Maynard Cooper & Gale, Birmingham, Alabama

In a post where he appears to reveal more than his opinion of the numbers, Volokh writes, «This isn't some liberal judge on the Ninth Circuit slamming the immigration bureaucracy — it's a moderate conservative, citing many opinions from the Seventh Circuit (which has a reputation as being pretty sane).

1979)-RRB- explaining why Judge Wyzanski was declining his proposed nomination to the First Circuit (by chance, when I was in the practice of law I had the privilege of arguing a case that successfully challenged, in First Amendment terms, the Northern District of Illinois» rule that impermissibly limited lawyers» ability to comment on pending litigation — and Judge Wyzanski was a member of the panel, sitting by invitation in the Seventh Circuit).

A conversation with Judge Richard A. Posner of the Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (and senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School)-- one of the most provocative voices of both the modern federal judiciary and legal academia.

The size of the U.S. Courts of Appeals fall between those two extremes, with the Seventh and Eighth Circuits having the second - smallest number of authorized active judges, eleven.