Sentences with phrase «appellate court appointments»

Of these, four are selected by the majority and minority leaders of each chamber of the state legislature from a list of 25 candidates nominated by the state commission on appellate court appointments.

A much anticipated update to the court's Case Management Order proved to be a great disappointment for defendants, as the plaintiff - favoring judge who wrote it was predictably rewarded with an appellate court appointment by a governor who acknowledges that trial lawyers are «the single most powerful political force» in the state.

Not exact matches

He has already made two appointments: Jenny Rivera, a Latina and law professor, (replacing Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick, his father's appointee and the first Hispanic judge on the court); and Sheila Abdus - Salaam, an associate justice in the appellate division, who is the first black woman to serve on the court, (she replaced the late Theodore Jones, an African - American appointee of former Gov. Eliot Spitzer).

«Governor Paterson's appointment of Richard Ravitch as Lieutenant Governor is legally sound and we are confident the appellate courts will ultimately rule in our favor,» said the governor's communications director, Peter E. Kauffmann.

There are several anticipated efforts in 2014 to alter processes for selecting state court judges, particularly in states with commission - based gubernatorial appointment of appellate judges.

HB 420 (Constitutional Amendment) Requires the judicial selection commission to publicly disclose its list of nominees for appointment to the office of the chief justice, supreme court, intermediate appellate court, circuit courts, or district courts concurrently with its presentation of that list to the governor or the chief justice.

According to the Constitution, appointment of judges to provincial superior courts (trial or appellate) is made by the Governor General.

Performing legal research and writing for other attorneys is a solo practice, as is a practice limited to transactional work, appellate work, certain types of court appointments, or court appearances for other law firms.

This constitutional amendment would have increased the mandatory retirement age for the state's top appellate court (court of appeals) from 70 to age 80 and prohibited the appointment of any person over age 70 to the court of appeals.

IAALS Online recently summarized anticipated efforts in 2014 to alter processes for selecting state court judges, and a recent article in the ABA Journal honed in on a common trend in a handful of these states with commission - based gubernatorial appointment of appellate judges.

While the statute does not mandate that the governor appoint commission nominees, and its role is limited to trial court appointments, Governor Mark Dayton follows the commission's recommendations and seeks its input for appellate court vacancies as well.

Only South Carolina and Virginia use a legislative appointment process at all court levels (Supreme Court, intermediate appellate and trial cocourt levels (Supreme Court, intermediate appellate and trial coCourt, intermediate appellate and trial courtcourt).

[13] Bertha Wilson was the first woman appointed to the Ontario Court of Appeal in 1975, and the first appointed to the Supreme Court in 1982, while Justice Harry LaForme's appointment to the Ontario Court of Appeal in 2004 was the first appointment of an aboriginal person to any appellate court in Canada (or, indeed, the CommonweaCourt of Appeal in 1975, and the first appointed to the Supreme Court in 1982, while Justice Harry LaForme's appointment to the Ontario Court of Appeal in 2004 was the first appointment of an aboriginal person to any appellate court in Canada (or, indeed, the CommonweaCourt in 1982, while Justice Harry LaForme's appointment to the Ontario Court of Appeal in 2004 was the first appointment of an aboriginal person to any appellate court in Canada (or, indeed, the CommonweaCourt of Appeal in 2004 was the first appointment of an aboriginal person to any appellate court in Canada (or, indeed, the Commonweacourt in Canada (or, indeed, the Commonwealth).

An understandable exception to this practice has been the appointment of Supreme Court justices, who as the unreviewable arbiters of the meaning of the Constitution loom much larger in national policy than trial or appellate judges.

A Democrat, he'll have to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate to this lifetime appointment on the nation's largest federal appellate court, based in San Francisco and serving nine western states and two Pacific Island jurisdictions.

As someone who can watch these developments unfold at something of a comfortable distance, what are your views on the judicial confirmation battles underway in the U.S. Senate, the use of filibusters, and the use of recess appointments to place filibustered nominees onto the federal appellate courts?