Sentences with phrase «u.s. federal judiciary»

Despite anecdotal evidence of jurors misbehaving when using the Internet and social media (for instance, the recent article on Slaw English Court Jails Juror Who Used Internet Search), a recent survey of members of the U.S. federal judiciary reveals that the problem appears less widespread than many assume.

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Schumer (Harvard Law «74) has always had a particular interest in the federal courts, and by virtue of his standing as the top lieutenant to Harry Reid, and his status as a senior member of the Senate judiciary committee, he is expected to all but name the next U.S. attorney for the Eastern District.

To teach high school students about personal bankruptcy, the U.S. Courts (the official Web site of the federal judiciary) has a program that gives teachers the option of bringing their classes into the courtroom.

The National Law Journal today reports that the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has launched its own wiki, a first for the federal judiciary.

At the urging of the U.S. Justice Department, the federal judiciary is considering whether to close Internet access to plea agreements and related docket notations in criminal cases.

The U.S. Courts press release states that the federal judiciary is in the midst of a «comprehensive study» of ways to beef up its services, and the results of the study should be available by July.

Another major characteristic of the federal administrative judiciary is that their positions are created pursuant to Article I of the U.S. Constitution.

At the behest of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce — a longtime opponent of third party litigation funding — the arm of the federal judiciary that oversees procedural rules recently decided to consider whether courts should mandate disclosure from civil litigants using third party funding to finance their legal claims....

This week on the legal - affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we put those questions to two distinguished members of the federal judiciary, Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf of the District of Nebraska, formerly author of the blog Hercules and the Umpire.

Other than the federal judiciary's codes of conduct, the U.S. Supreme Court has no formal guidelines for when a justice must recuse from a case.

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.

One of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's great fears is that the federal judiciary will start to be seen as just another political branch of government divided along partisan lines like Congress, the U.S. Supreme Court justice said Tuesday.

In that case, the U.S. Supreme Court held that property owners may appeal directly to the judiciary from a federal wetlands «compliance order.»