Sentences with phrase «active federal judges»

The panel included three active federal judges: the Hon. David Waxse (Kansas), the Hon. Vanessa Gilmore (Southern District Texas), and the Hon. Karla Spaulding (Middle District of Florida).

The Racketeer by John Grisham Doubleday, $ 28.95 Grisham's latest thriller has a killer concept: Only four active federal judges have ever been murdered — until Judge Raymond Fawcett makes # 5.

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Being a tribal member with the Cherokee Nation with nearly fifteen years as a federal prosecutor in different federal courts and over twenty as both an Army active duty and reserve lawyer (Judge Advocate), I brought a perspective to the tribal court bench that was unique.

Women also make up around one - third of active Circuit Court of Appeals judges and a quarter of Federal Court judges.

For anyone not familiar with Lawyers Diary, it is a lawyers» deskbook that provides contact information within a state for all active lawyers; federal and state courts and judges; court clerks, prosecutors, administrators and other officials; state and federal agencies and officials; and insurance companies and claims managers; along with directories, maps, fee schedules and various other types of need - to - know information for lawyers.

But the personality and character of a federal court of appeals inevitably derive over time from its active judges, who sit together year after year in randomly selected panels of three and who, sitting together en banc, are the only organ of the court authorized to overrule published panel decisions.

But, here, two of the Second Circuit's active judges ruled against Marblegate, the dissent was by a senior judge who can not vote on an en banc petition, and the Second Circuit has historically granted fewer en banc rehearings than any other circuit court.5 Other avenues could include Marblegate filing a petition for a writ of certiorari with the US Supreme Court and / or pursuing other federal or state law remedies, including state law theories of successor liability or fraudulent conveyance against the new EDMC subsidiary, theories that the Second Circuit noted as potential causes of action but did not analyze.

Fifty - one of the 162 active judges — about 31 percent — currently sitting on the 13 federal courts of appeal are women, according to NWLC.

fifteen years as a federal prosecutor in different federal courts and over twenty as both an Army active duty and reserve lawyer (Judge Advocate), I brought a perspective to the tribal court bench that was unique.

Soon after joining CLS in 1987, she became active in a variety of litigation, ranging from federal court class actions to civil service and unemployment compensation hearings before administrative law judges.

The offending passage occurred in the judge's dissent in Jones v. United States 526 U.S. 227 (1999) where Kennedy is interpreting a piece of federal criminal legislation, and he finds that «there is some significance in the use of the active voice in the main paragraph and the passive voice in clauses (2) and (3) of § 2119.»

Please explain how the role and responsibilities of the chief judge of a federal appellate court differ from the role and responsibilities of other judges in regular active service.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of working on the federal appellate court with the smallest number of authorized active judges?

Also, what is your view on whether the Ninth Circuit — which is already by far the largest federal appellate court and which might soon be expanded to thirty - five active judges — should be split into two or more smaller circuits, and is there a particular manner of dividing the Ninth Circuit that you view as best?