Sentences with phrase «allow judicial committees»

They are: to give judges discretion on whether to grant permission for a challenge if they are of «exceptional public interest»; and to allow judicial committees to decide the level at which individuals who fund cases will have to be identified.

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The committee acknowledged that allowing law firms to pay the salaries of judicial law clerks would implicate judicial ethics rules that require judges to avoid impropriety and appear unbiased.

The committee found that the judicial code of ethics had been violated and therefore allowed Plante's application.

In the Court of Queen's Bench, the reviewing judge acknowledged that it was troubling that the Appeal Committee allowed an appeal to be heard by an even number of members, but said that the role of the court on judicial review was to determine whether the process was unfair, not whether it was «distasteful».

The university did not allow the students to appeal the decision to the Board of Governors Discipline Appeal Committee, thereby preventing them from exhausting all internal remedies before seeking judicial review.

Stemming from the concept of judicial independence, chairs of Committees enjoy judicial immunity with respect to their decisions (but not their decision processes) to allow them to conduct their roles «freely and impartially, without fear of suit» (para. 61).

The court also held that the state's solicitation clause, which prohibited judges and judicial candidates from personally soliciting campaign contributions (but allowed campaign committees to do so on behalf of the candidates), was unconstitutional to the extent that it prohibited candidates from signing solicitation letters and making campaign appeals before large groups.

Employees, AFL - CIO v. Brunner, 1:10 - CV - 504, 2012 WL 6114571 (S.D. Ohio Dec. 10, 2012): A labor organization, three judicial candidates, and a political party, challenged the solicitation clauses of the Ohio Code of Judicial Conduct which prohibit a judicial candidate from personally soliciting contributions but allow a candidate to solicit to groups of 20 or more, or through letters distributed by a candidate's cojudicial candidates, and a political party, challenged the solicitation clauses of the Ohio Code of Judicial Conduct which prohibit a judicial candidate from personally soliciting contributions but allow a candidate to solicit to groups of 20 or more, or through letters distributed by a candidate's coJudicial Conduct which prohibit a judicial candidate from personally soliciting contributions but allow a candidate to solicit to groups of 20 or more, or through letters distributed by a candidate's cojudicial candidate from personally soliciting contributions but allow a candidate to solicit to groups of 20 or more, or through letters distributed by a candidate's committee.

Oklahoma's Senate Judiciary Committee has approved five measures that would replace commission - based appointment of appellate judges with contested elections, limit the role of the judicial nominating commission in identifying the best qualified applicants, allow the governor to replace some lawyer members of the commission, and require appellate judges to get 60 percent «yes» votes to be retained.

In October, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R - Iowa, announced he and a bipartisan group of senators were reintroducing the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act, which would overhaul prison sentences for nonviolent drug offenders and allow for more judicial discretion during sentencing.

Michigan: repeal of mandatory judicial retirement age advances out of House committee; would allow judges older than 70 to run for or be appointed to judicial office

The university did not allow the students to appeal the decision to the Board of Governors Discipline Appeal Committee, thereby preventing them from exhausting all internal remedies before seeking judicial review... [more]

California is one step closer to allowing e-delivery of insurance documents after the State Assembly Judicial Committee passed a bill that would allow insurance policies to be renewed electronically...