Sentences with phrase «as federal court judges»

Other than in regard to the type of matters assigned to them by Parliament, they are, for all intents and purposes, performing the same task as Federal Court Judges.

Constitutional expert Professor Peter W. Hogg, C.C., Q.C., has also reviewed Mr. Binnie's opinion and has said he is «in complete agreement with the Honourable Ian Binnie's conclusion that a person who has been a member of the Québec Bar for 10 years and is now sitting as a Federal Court judge is eligible to be appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada from Québec.»

In preparing this Report, I spoke to Justice Wilcox about his observations as a Federal Court judge who sat on native title cases.

Not exact matches

In a court ruling authorizing the arrests, Brazilian federal judge André Duszczak said «Faria and other BRF officers sought to cover up claims of possible food contamination, as shown in certain laboratory tests, made by a former employee in a labor lawsuit.»

Western Australian Supreme Court judge James Edelman has been appointed as a judge of the Federal Court of Australia.

Lawyers for Ailes and Carlson appeared in court in New Jersey as a federal judge sought to plot the course of the lawsuit in the wake of «rapid fire» motions from the parties, include Carlson's motion to block Ailes» attorneys» request for arbitration.

On 6 August 2013, Federal Judge Amos Mazzant of the Eastern District of Texas of the Fifth Circuit ruled that bitcoins are «a currency or a form of money» (specifically securities as defined by Federal Securities Laws), and as such were subject to the court's jurisdiction, [274][274] and Germany's Finance Ministry subsumed bitcoins under the term «unit of account» — a financial instrument — though not as e-money or a functional currency, a classification nonetheless having legal and tax implications.

A federal judge unmasked Hannity as longtime Trump attorney Cohen's mysterious third client during a court hearing on Monday.

Judge Weinstein's ruling is important, as it is the first federal court decision to address — and agree with — the CFTC's determination that virtual currencies are commodities as defined by the CEA.

New York Supreme Court Judge Jennifer G. Schecter rejected that argument on Tuesday, arguing that the logic of Clinton v. Jones was just as applicable in state court as in federal cCourt Judge Jennifer G. Schecter rejected that argument on Tuesday, arguing that the logic of Clinton v. Jones was just as applicable in state court as in federal ccourt as in federal courtcourt.

That wasn't even Olson's case, but with assists from a federal district court judge who came out as being in a same - sex relationship only after ruling and retiring, and elected officials who chose to forgo their traditional duty to vigorously defend state law, Olson and Boies did succeed in disenfranchising millions of Californians on a procedural technicality.

A federal judge in Oklahoma has issued an order putting on hold the certification of a ballot measure that forbids state courts from considering or using international laws, as well as Sharia, or Islamic law.

The filings recently prompted a California federal judge to threaten to brand the network a «vexatious litigant» because its lawsuits seemed designed to «overwhelm the courts... so as to avoid a rational decision on the merits.»

The week before, after three days of hearings in a U.S. District Court in Indianapolis, Federal Judge James Noland reversed a USAC ban that would have kept six CART teams — numbering among them drivers such as defending Indy champ Al Unser, his brother Bobby, and former winners Johnny Rutherford and Gordon Johncock — from competing in this year's race.

Prior to being elected a judge the State Supreme Court, Ziegler served on the Washington County Circuit Court and worked as a federal prosecutor.

Recent rulings by federal and state courts have cast judges as the most potent critics of stop - and - frisk, raising questions about whether the city has sidestepped the Constitution in the drive to keep crime rates low.

The Joe Percoco corruption trial resumes this afternoon in federal court in Manhattan, with disgraced ex-lobbyist Todd Howe, who has been spending his night in jail since late last week, appearing in a business suit — not prison garb — as per the judge's orders.

Art. 3116, however, limits the sum that may be charged candidates for certain posts, such as the offices of district judge, judge of the Court of Civil Appeals, and senator and representative in the state and federal legislatures, and for some counties fees are fixed by Arts. 3116a - 3116d, 1939 Supp., and 3116e, 3116f, 1942 Supp.

Judge Joan M. Azrack, in addressing a room full of prospective jurors on Monday, let it be known that they'd been selected as representatives of one of the largest federal district court jurisdictions in the nation, covering Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, Nassau and Suffolk counties.

The federal courts found the Grand Street projects themselves, run by Silver allies, discriminated against black and Latino applicants in a suit that named Ralph Lippman, the father of the chief judge, as a defendant.

He is now gone from our lives, his Assembly seat as vacant as his eyes, completing his shuffle from Manhattan State Supreme Court, where he began as a law secretary in 1971, to the federal courthouse on Foley Square, where 12 of his peers finally got a chance to judge seven of his felonies.

As federal courts move to decide whether to intervene on the Congressional redistricting process, the last ditch legal efforts on behalf of Albany's legislative leaders to dismiss the lawsuit was rejected by a three judge panel this evening.

The anti-graft agency then re-arraigned Turaki and the three companies before Justice Dimgba in Abuja, being the only judge sitting as a vacation judge in the northern region of the country while the other Federal High Court judges proceed on vacation.

But political hopeful Philip Pidot is pressing for a new primary in federal court after a state court judge ruled he was eligible to run as a Republican ballot but there was not enough time to get Pidot's name on the primary ballot by last Tuesday.

Before serving as a federal judge, Townes had a decorated career as a judge, serving on the Syracuse City Court in 1987, the state Supreme Court in 1999 and the state Appellate Division in 2001.

Ashley Moody has excelled as a commercial litigator in private practice, a federal prosecutor and a state circuit court judge.

SAN DIEGO — An Indiana - born federal judge, whose Mexican heritage Donald Trump used to paint him as biased against him in a 2016 court case because of his immigration stance,...

The announcement was made in court papers filed recently, as part of the ongoing remedy process stemming from the federal class action lawsuit, Floyd vs. City of New York, in which a judge ruled the police unfairly targeted people of color for stops.

A federal judge in Brooklyn, in an extraordinary opinion that calls for courts to pay closer attention to how felony convictions affect people's lives, sentenced a woman in a drug case to probation rather than prison, saying the collateral consequences she would face as a felon were punishment enough.

She's not acting on behalf of the Supreme Court; she is acting under her own (pretty vast) authority as a federal judge under Article III of the Constitution, and issuing the order from a district cCourt; she is acting under her own (pretty vast) authority as a federal judge under Article III of the Constitution, and issuing the order from a district courtcourt.

The White House is vetting Jane L. Kelly, a career public defender turned federal appellate judge, as a potential nominee for the Supreme Court.

Donald Trump earned a victory in Manhattan federal court after a judge tossed out a model's lawsuit alleging his Trump Model Management stiffed her out of more than $ 200,000 as part of a modeling scam.

At the Tuesday afternoon sentencing of Mr. Silver, Federal District Court Judge Valerie Caproni referred to his age of 72 as why she wouldn't go by the recommended sentence of roughly 22 to 27 years.

One of the charges read in part, «That you, Hyeladzira Ajiya Nganjiwa, between January 18 and December 16, 2013, in Lagos within the jurisdiction of this honourable court, being a judge of the Federal High Court, did enrich yourself with an aggregate sum of $ 144,000 through your account number 328446178210 domiciled in Guaranty Trust Bank Plc, so as to have a significant increase in your assets that you can not reasonably explain the increase in relation to your lawful income.&rcourt, being a judge of the Federal High Court, did enrich yourself with an aggregate sum of $ 144,000 through your account number 328446178210 domiciled in Guaranty Trust Bank Plc, so as to have a significant increase in your assets that you can not reasonably explain the increase in relation to your lawful income.&rCourt, did enrich yourself with an aggregate sum of $ 144,000 through your account number 328446178210 domiciled in Guaranty Trust Bank Plc, so as to have a significant increase in your assets that you can not reasonably explain the increase in relation to your lawful income.»

Another charge read, «That you, Hyeladzira Ajiya Nganjiwa, between January 6 and November 17, 2014, in Lagos within the jurisdiction of this honourable court, being a judge of the Federal High Court, did enrich yourself with an aggregate sum of $ 102,000 through your account number 328446178210 domiciled in Guaranty Trust Bank Plc, so as to have a significant increase in your assets that you can not reasonably explain the increase in relation to your lawful income.&rcourt, being a judge of the Federal High Court, did enrich yourself with an aggregate sum of $ 102,000 through your account number 328446178210 domiciled in Guaranty Trust Bank Plc, so as to have a significant increase in your assets that you can not reasonably explain the increase in relation to your lawful income.&rCourt, did enrich yourself with an aggregate sum of $ 102,000 through your account number 328446178210 domiciled in Guaranty Trust Bank Plc, so as to have a significant increase in your assets that you can not reasonably explain the increase in relation to your lawful income.»

The brazen Bronx pol grinned like a Cheshire cat as he sauntered out of Manhattan federal court yesterday after the judge declared a mistrial when jurors said they were hopelessly deadlocked on a slate of charges that many saw as a slam dunk.

«I believe that the 1st defendant as a Federal High Court Judge has a lot to lose if she considered the idea of jumping bail.

As such, any cases that are brought to Federal Judiciary will be tried by lower Federal judges (circuit courts I assume) and then the circuit court decision on the case will be the law of the land until (at some point in indeterminate future) SCOTUS is re-constituted and overturns one of those decisions.

The Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Ibrahim Auta, had re-assigned the case to Justice Quadri when Justice Ademola was on suspension as a result of the joint trial.

It's known as Dillon's Rule and is named after John Forrest Dillon, who was appointed a Federal Circuit Court of Appeals Judge by President Ulysses S. Grant in 1869.

«We're taking this court action — which, as far as we can tell, is unprecedented for the City Council — because we strongly oppose Mayor Bloomberg in his attempt to block the implementation of the federal judge's ruling that we need to implement immediately,» Quinn said.

Green announced today that over the weekend he was informed by Senator Chuck Schumer's office that his confirmation as a federal district court judge had been blocked by Senate Republicans.

In a surprise, Manhattan Federal Court Judge Kimba Wood hit Skelos» surly scion Adam with an even longer prison sentence — 6 1/2 years — as a «deterrence.»

Justice Ademola was also said to have on January 5, 2015 in his capacity as a public servant «corruptly received from Joe Odey Agi a BMW Saloon 320i valued at N8, 500,000 through your son, Ademide Ademola, as gratification in the exercise of your of your official functions as the judge of the Federal High Court of Nigeria».

On Monday, Kaloyeros filed court documents asking a judge to compel Fort Schuyler and Fuller Road to pay his legal expenses and fees connected to the state and federal charges, as well as his ongoing effort to retain his SUNY Poly faculty position.

http://nypost.com/2014/01/09/judge-lawyer-spar-over-use-of-the-n-word-in-stevenson-trial/ Manhattan federal court's top judge got into a heated debate on Thursday with a black lawyer on whether the N - word can ever be interpreted as a «term of endearment.»

Donald Trump earned a victory in Manhattan federal court Wednesday after a judge tossed out a model's lawsuit alleging his Trump Model Management stiffed her out of more than $ 200,000 as part of a modeling scam.

The presiding judge, Valerie E. Caproni of Federal District Court, told jurors at the outset of the trial that the government must prove that Mr. Silver knowingly participated in a scheme to defraud and «received things of value in the form of bribes or kickbacks, and that he knew when he accepted those things he was expected, in exchange, to take official action as the opportunity arose.»

Ry - Ann Hermon, who served as Boyland's chief of staff and was also romantically involved with the pol, is asking Judge Sandra Townes for no jail time ahead of sentencing in Brooklyn federal court Friday.

The 11 - page ruling, by Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein of Federal District Court in Manhattan, found that the city had overstepped its bounds in requiring, as part of a licensing process, that carwash owners buy a special bond within a two - tiered system: $ 30,000 for those whose workers were unionized or employers who agreed to monitoring, and $ 150,000 for all others.