Sentences with phrase «appeal court judges»

It's made a federal appeals court judge mad enough to quit the bench.

His administration is challenging the suspension ruling, which was upheld last week by appeal court judges.

The risks of predicting a trial court judgment are compounded if the claim goes on appeal where appeal court judges frequently place an importance on facts not regarded as important by the trial judge.

It contains strong commentary on two expert opinions and is worthy of some serious thought coming from a prominent appeals court judge.

A federal appeals court judge will join the seminar as guest lecturer one afternoon.

A panel of Appeal Court judges in Alberta dismissed the appeal of a couple who were found guilty of failing to provide the necessaries of life to their 19 month old son, who died of meningitis in 2012.

There is no shortage of settings in which the retirement question is being watched with keen interest — the White House, Senate and the chambers of the federal appeals court judges who make up most spots on the official and unofficial short lists for filling a high court vacancy.

Appeal court judges said doctors should continuing treating Alfie pending any Supreme Court decision.

A spokesman for Bradley's campaign tied the comments to Bradley's opponent, state Appeals Court Judge JoAnne Kloppenburg.

Following our successful appeal in our case of Bussey, where appeal court judges overruled the standard by which «safe» levels of exposure to asbestos have historically been used to deny compensation to people exposed to asbestos at work, our most recent settlement in the case of Alan Kaszubowski sadly highlights how important that judgement was.

Federal appeals court judges don't seem eager to embrace the arguments of lawyers seeking a new trial for Republican former New York Senate leader Dean Skelos.

The summary conviction appeal court judge dismissed the appeals on the basis that the trial judge had jurisdiction in both matters, that the rules of procedure in both trials would essentially have been the same, and that Sciascia was not prejudiced by any differences in the applicable rules of evidence.

U.S. appeals court judges appear divided over whether to allow a research center affiliated with MIT and Harvard to keep patents potentially worth billions of dollars on a groundbreaking gene editing technology known as CRISPR.

A friend of federal appeals court Judge Merrick Garland, someone recommended by several senators, also said Tuesday that Garland is happy in his job and has no interest in leaving the judiciary to head the FBI.

In the six years ending in 1998, for instance, more than two - thirds of the clerks for three liberal justices — Ruth Bader Ginsburg, David H. Souter and John Paul Stevens — had first clerked for appeals court judges appointed by Democratic presidents.

A retired Appeal Court Judge, Justice Henrrietta Abban on Tuesday shed tears uncontrollably after a grimy picture was painted about how corruption has pierced the leadership of national institutions.

President Barack Obama has announced he is nominating veteran appeals court judge Merrick Garland to be the next US Supreme Court Justice.

President Barack Obama nominated appeals court judge Merrick Garland to the U.S. Supreme Court, thrusting a respected moderate jurist and former prosecutor into the center of an election - year clash over the future of the nation's highest court.

U.S. appeals court judges questioned the lawyer defending President Donald Trump's temporary travel ban about whether it discriminates against Muslims.

Federal appeals court judges seemed skeptical of President Donald Trump's executive order restricting travel, during courtroom arguments Monday.

Diaz Sr. listed a number of Latino judges he believes would have been a better pick for Cuomo than Rivera, including Rolando T. Acosta, a Dominican - American appeals court judge.

Federal appeals court judges weighed whether they should consider Trump's previous statements supporting a complete ban on Muslims entering the country when ruling on his revised order to suspend travel from six Muslim - majority countries.

«The home secretary is now running out of legal options after three appeal court judges unanimously dismissed her challenge, ruling that «torture is universally abhorred as an evil» and that the UK can not deport Abu Qatada if there is a risk that evidence gained through forced or violent confessions will be used against him in a trial.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- President Donald Trump, poised to restore the conservative majority on the Supreme Court, met with key senators on Tuesday and promised to unveil his nominee next week, with three U.S. appeals court judges among those under close consideration.

Otherwise, «any powerful person who asks someone to do something is committing a federal crime because people are afraid of powerful people and want to curry their favor,» Appeals Court Judge Richard Wesley noted in the Silver hearing.

The short list includes federal appeals court judges Sri Srinivasan and Merrick Garland.

Chief Appeals Court Judge Janet DiFiore overturned a two - year - old ruling in the case of Altman v. 285 West Fourth LLC, which could have given tenants the legal grounds for challenging market - rate rents in formerly stabilized apartments, according to the Commercial Observer.

(CNN)- With President Obama's nomination of federal appeals court judge Sonia Sotomayor to sit on the Supreme Court, both Democrats and Republicans see an opportunity to rally their respective bases.

Instead, Cuomo chose Judge Leslie Stein, a Democrat and mid-level appeals court judge from Albany.

On Oct. 27 of last year, appeals court judge Karen Peters reduced Dixon's sentence and did away with his criminal record.

January 31, 2017 • The choice of the 49 - year - old Denver federal appeals court judge fulfills an early campaign promise by Trump to nominate a solid conservative with a record of strictly interpreting the Constitution.

The California appeals court judges concluded that the plaintiffs «failed to establish that the challenged statutes violate equal protection, primarily because they did not show that the statutes inevitably cause a certain group of students to receive an education inferior to the education received by other students.»

«This is a whole new thing,» said N.C. Appeals Court Judge Wanda Bryant during arguments Wednesday, referring to the Internet - based charter school model which has no equivalent in the state's education system.

Federal appeals court judges recently heard a challenge to the Obama EPA's approval of E15, a blend of 85 percent gasoline and 15 percent ethanol, to be -LSB-...]

It's too early to know yet whether the Americans under investigation — who also include Federal Appeals Court Judge Jay Bybee, University of California law professor John Yoo, Chevron lawyer William J. Haynes II, Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff David Addington, and former Undersecretary of Defense Douglas J. Feith — have canceled vacation plans for Ibiza, and it's hard to say whether the case has affected them yet, at least a little bit.

Appeals court judges filled in for the justices.

Past speakers at FAC forums have included Arianna Huffington, Jeffrey Toobin, US appeals court judge Alex Kozinski, Daniel Ellsberg, First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams, investigative reporter Seymour Hersh, Internet journalism pioneer Dan Gillmor, and many more.

Federal appeals court judges gave no indication today that they see any significant legal obstacles to the Fish and Wildlife Service's decision to list the polar bear as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

The Summary Conviction Appeal Court Judge agreed the officer should have removed himself from the home and sought lawful authority to conduct the search which resulted in the seizure of the accused's firearms.

Three appeals court judges served as visiting judges on the Ohio Supreme Court today, in cases involving whether a trial court has jurisdiction to enforce its injunction against red light cameras and whether a bank can foreclose on a house without a federally required face - to - face meeting with the borrower.

Now, in what lower appeal court judges have called a «most troubling appeal» and a «most unfortunate circumstance,» the Supreme Court will hear on Tuesday the case that asks when and under what circumstances a judge can copy the submissions of a party without attribution.

Speaking on Newsnight Scotland on Tuesday, he questioned why Hope had the individual authority, sitting as one of Scotland's two judges on the supreme court, to overrule decisions made by, in one case, seven Scottish appeal court judges.

However, appeals court Judge Pierre Dalphond denied the request on Tuesday, saying Quebec's argument that it would be costly to start its own registry from scratch is not a strong enough reason to suspend a court ruling.

The Federal Circuit's choice to blow off Judge Posner's Apple - Google ruling is a shame, and especially so because the case is a rare instance when an outside appeals court judge has weighed in on patent law.

In a decision released Dec. 21, appeal court judge S.E. Lang wrote that, «The trial judge's conclusion is clear that, in making the database available to the public for direct search, «BNV breached section 2 of the AUA because it did not confine its access and use of the services and MLS database to its exclusive and internal use.

Young lawyers are not getting enough exposure to the real world,» says Thomas Zuber, a retired superior and appeal court judge who also practised law and taught at the University of Windsor for many years.