Sentences with phrase «about district judges»

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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.

U.S. District Court Judge Kiyo Matsumoto called the woman into the courtroom and questioned her about the supposed account of the jury's secret deliberations.

General District Judge Dean Worcester said the legal standard for establishing probable cause to send the case to a grand jury is low, and that arguments about planted evidence are better suited for trial.

In a December 3, 2017 order dismissing the case that is likely to be viewed with some relief by many dairy companies, US district judge Katherine B Forrest agreed with Dannon, noting that a court handling a similar false advertising lawsuit about «non-GMO» claims on dairy products fed GM feed (Gallagher v. Chipotle Mexican Grill) rejected a similar claim at the pleading stage.

A Lake County judge ruled Tuesday that most of the 230 - acre lake bed belongs to the Crystal Lake Park District, settling a 1995 suit filed by the park board in which it laid claim to about 90 percent of the lake bed.

Nicholas Crichton, district judge at the Inner London Family Proceedings Court, who deals with about 1,500 contact cases a year, estimates that about 75 per cent of such cases could avoid contested hearings under the new system.

«We are talking about a two - court structure, but we're still trying to figure out a way to balance the role of judges in these cases as well as the district attorneys» role,» he said, adding, «There would be family court for the less serious cases and a youth court for the more serious cases.

This is about the nomination of Brett Joseph Talley to the position of District Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama.

Acting Erie County Judge James A. W. McLeod declared a mistrial in a drug and human trafficking case after a prosecution witness made a statement to the District Attorney's Office last week about an alleged prior contact between McLeod and the defendant.

About 7,000 students would be eligible for refunds if U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel approves the settlement.

The lawsuit U.S. District Judge George Daniels dismissed had alleged Fox tried to torment Tantaros after she complained about sexual harassment.

Last night, not long after Magistrate Judge and special redistricting master Roanne Mann grilled legislative lawyers about the merits of considering incumbency, she released a set of proposed maps that seems to take the current configuration of congressional districts as a very loose template, but with some significant changes for a number of existing office - holders.

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In court papers, defense lawyers have asked U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood to exclude evidence of statements the son made that the father knew nothing about.

On Thursday afternoon, U.S. District Court Judge Joan M. Azrack spent more than two hours giving instructions to the jury, reading aloud from 54 pages explaining the law and how jurors should go about considering each charge the defendants face.

The motion, filed in February, asked U.S. District Judge Joan M. Azrack to allow Singh to testify about how a «panicked» Mangano asked him to exchange a cash bribe he'd received from a contractor, in case the bills were marked.

The people of New York need and demand «fair dealing» and if the pols and the judge can't do it, then put it in a computer and generate neutral districts going north to south or east to west, on the basis of population alone and let people work together and compromise for their common good — that's what America is about and what American's are supposed to do — isn't it?

Craig Doran, Astacio's Administrative Judge in the Seventh Judicial District, issued a statement about today's ruling saying in part:

Along with just about everyone else in the media and Florida politics, I've had lengthy chats with Lee about his future since a judge drew new district lines that essentially forced him to make a tough decision.

Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and his ex-business associate Rick Gates appeared before a U.S. District judge for a status hearing following their indictment in the special counsel's ongoing investigation, and were warned about speaking to the press yet again as the case moves forward.

At a Meet - the - Candidates Night event at the Rosendale Recreation Center last Thursday evening, sponsored by the Women's Club of Rosendale, about 100 local residents turned out to hear a succession of three - minute «elevator speeches» about the candidacies of contenders for the posts of representatives for the 19th US Congressional District and New York State's 103rd Assembly District, as well as judges for the Ulster County Supreme Court and Family Court.

Gibson currently represents about half the new Catskill / Hudson Valley district, drawn up by a judge this spring after the state legislature could not agree on a redistricting plan.

He also said he would not speak about how he and his fellow judge, William Price, ran the court system's finances, citing the ongoing investigation against Ms. Stulsky by the county district attorney's office.

Silver's lawyers, while entering a not guilty plea for him on Tuesday before U.S. District Court Judge Valerie Caproni, argued that Bharara broke rules about what prosecutors can say outside court and may have prejudiced the grand jury that indicted Silver.

The decision by U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan of Washington came in a lawsuit over public records brought by Judicial Watch, a conservative legal watchdog group, regarding its May 2013 request for information about the employment arrangement of Huma Abedin, a longtime Clinton aide.

Inside the courthouse, U.S. District Judge Joan M. Azrack asked 51 potential jurors — one by one — about their jobs, what they do in their spare time, their favorite television shows and which public figures they admire.

Under the new lines of the district, drawn by a federal judge, voters would have gone about by a pretty similar margin for Obama in the 2008 election.

The race will likely be decided by a state Supreme Court judge who arrived at the Board of Elections in Yaphank about 3 p.m. Wednesday to start making calls on contested absentee ballots sent to the district by mail.

The judge, Valerie E. Caproni of Federal District Court, said a number of jurors» answers suggested that they had had a problem with what they had read about the former speaker.

After defense attorneys spent hours grilling Howe about his nefarious past, U.S. District Court Judge Valerie Caproni, with the jury out of the room, tried to get the lawyers to move on.

«You take the mayor and the county executive and the judges and the district attorney and the police chief — and that bickering and fighting between the DA and the police, I don't care whose fault it is, it's ridiculous, it's hurting us, it has to stop — you put them all in a room and you don't let them out until they come up with a plan, they agree on something, (a way) to do something about crime.»

John Dudley, District Manager of Bronx Community Board 3, said he would have to wait and see if the city would actually be able to implement these plans effectively before judging them too strongly one way or the other, but he did feel slightly better about them given the alterations the City Council had made.

Long Island federal Judge Joan Azrack ruled last month that defense lawyers can cross-examine Singh about those allegations, but not that de Blasio was never charged by federal prosecutors and the Manhattan District Attorney's Office following lengthy investigations.

«There is obvious interest in obtaining information about the origins of an investigation that led, ultimately, to the resignation of the governor of New York,» U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff said in ruling for the paper today.

As WCBS 880's Alex Silverman reported, this is the same judge who granted District Attorney Dan Donovan's request to release a sliver of information about the grand jury.

Democratic state Assemblyman Tom Abinanti of Westchester County says it is unseemly for judges and district attorneys to run for office with their campaigns funded by lawyers and litigants on whose cases they are about to rule.

By talking about the «problems» with the judge's lines, Cuomo is setting himself up to sign off, with great regret, and the legislature's district lines, arguing, as his father once did, that they're preferable to anything the courts could come up with.

A letter released by US District Court Judge Stephen Robinson showed e-mail proof that Bernard Kerik, former NYPD Police Commissioner, made false statements when disclosing information to Bronx prosecutors about free renovations to his home.

«The case is about their friendship, Judge, and these emails set out in real time the development of their friendship,» Gitner told U.S. District Court Judge Valerie Caproni, noting the men became friends following a fishing trip.

But, as U.S. District Court Judge Valerie Caproni advised jurors before evidence about donations to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's campaign came up as an issue, there have been no suggestions that the money flow to Cuomo violated any state laws.

After U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni ordered them to keep working for a second time Monday, the jury asked about returning a partial verdict Tuesday morning, and then delivered it an hour later.

A temporary restraining order signed Wednesday by U.S. District Court Judge Lawrence Kahn calls for a hearing on or about May 26.

A Manhattan judge has ordered CBS to turn over emails by Friday morning in an attempt to establish who has editorial control over a television series about Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes» office or else possibly face an injunction that would postpone the show's debut episode next week, according a rival candidate.

In rulings Monday, U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni spared Howe some difficult cross-examination by barring questions about «anti-Semitic» and «misogynistic» emails.

The chancellor said lawmakers should «reopen» a section of the law that increases to about 50 percent the maximum weight that local school districts can assign to so - called «growth» scores in judging teachers» classroom performance.

U.S. District Court Judge Joan M. Azrack said she would provide for the deliberations a transcript of the testimony by FBI special agent Laura Spence, who had said Linda Mangano made false statements in FBI interviews about her alleged no - show job with restaurateur Harendra Singh.

At least nine of the three dozen people from the New York City area questioned for jury service by U.S. District Court Judge Valerie Caproni raised concerns about corporate donations to politicians.

Judge previously was dean of students for the Enlarged City School District of Middletown, where he oversaw educational and disciplinary decisions for nearly 600 high school students and supervised about 20 instructional and 15 non-instructional staff members.

As an FBI finance investigator explained how she set up a spreadsheet, U.S. District Court Judge Valerie Caproni declared, «We're all gonna learn all about Excel now!»

Acting Erie County Judge James A. W. McLeod declared a mistrial Monday in a drug and human trafficking case after a prosecution witness made a statement to the District Attorney's Office last week about an alleged prior contact between McLeod and the defendant.