Sentences with phrase «as an appellate judge before»

The man Kagan hopes to replace, Justice John Paul Stevens, had served five years as an appellate judge before his 1975 promotion to the Supreme Court.

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Suozzi's voice cracked as he began talking about his father, Joseph Suozzi, a former Glen Cove mayor and city court, state Supreme Court and appellate court judge who died at age 95 on Oct. 16, less than a month before his son was elected to Congress.

The SC is not a trial court but an appellate one and should never constitute itself into a prosecutor, judge and jury and sit in its own cause as if it is the Chief's Palace where the accused is hauled before the Chief and his elders, tried, found guilty and ordered to present seventy - two rams and seventy - two bottles of schnapps to pacify the gods and ancestors in a constitutional democracy.

Andy Levy is widely regarded as one of Maryland's premier trial and appellate lawyers, equally comfortable in civil and criminal courtrooms, before jury, judge, or arbitrator.

The 2003 version of Family Proceedings Rules 1991, r 8.1 (3) requires that the judge, as appellate tribunal, «be limited to a review of the decision or order of the district judge», save where the «judge considers that... it would be in the interests of justice to hold a rehearing» — as happened, for example in R v R (Lump Sum Repayments)[2003] EWHC 3197 (Fam), [2004] 1 FLR 928, where Mr Justice Wilson (as he then was) decided that the evidence before the district judge needed to be revisited by him.

• Retired appellate judges who want to go back to law practice will have to wait three years before they can represent a client at the court on which they served as a judge.

Before joining Houser, he clerked for an appellate Massachusetts judge and then worked for several years at an international law firm in Boston, Massachusetts and Irvine, California as a litigation associate.

Before joining Carr Maloney, Bill served as a criminal trial and appellate practitioner in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps.

She began her legal career as a law clerk for two appellate judges (one state, one federal) and then worked for a small D.C. law firm with a national practice before moving to Spokane, Washington to work as a federal public defender.

(B) A judge shall not serve in a fiduciary position if the judge as fiduciary will likely be engaged in proceedings that would ordinarily come before the judge, or if the estate, trust, or ward becomes involved in adversary proceedings in the court on which the judge serves, or one under its appellate jurisdiction.

(1) The judge should not serve if it is likely that as a fiduciary the judge would be engaged in proceedings that would ordinarily come before the judge or if the estate, trust, or ward becomes involved in adversary proceedings in the court on which the judge serves or one under its appellate jurisdiction.

That, for suits of all sorts, criminal as well as civil, there be two instances, or say stages, or degrees, of jurisdiction: style and title of the judges, before whom the suit is brought in the first instance, judges immediate — of those before whom it is brought in the second instance, or say in the way of appeal, judges appellate.