Sentences with phrase «as appellate judges»

Fortunately, the prosecutor was not as sensitive as the appellate judges; apparently, he laughed off the reference.

In short, the outcome would appear to turn on the views of its newest member — a product of Catholic schools who, as Arizona Supreme Court justice Clint Bolick explains in this issue (see «Gorsuch, the Judicious Judge,» features), has interpreted the establishment clause narrowly during his tenure as an appellate judge.

Obama and the Committee could compromise over a nominee such as appellate judge Sri Srinivasan, whose recent 2013 nomination to the Court of Appeals was approved on a 97 - 0 vote with strong praise from Republicans.

He joined The Cates Law Firm in 2012, and the firm became Cates Mahoney, LLC in January 2013 after founding partner Judy Cates left private practice and was sworn in as an appellate judge for the Fifth District Appellate Court of Illinois.

Marianne Short Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer UnitedHealth Group September 15, 2017 Marianne Short, Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer at UnitedHealth Group, discusses UnitedHealth Group's pro bono efforts and the role providing pro bono legal services played in her own career, including 12 years as an appellate judge on the Minnesota Court of Appeals.

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.

I don't think my service as an appellate judge has changed my views on the difficult issue of illegal drugs.

She also wrote 22 concurring opinions and 21 dissents as an appellate judge.

Not exact matches

In Tuesday's ruling, a three - judge appellate panel rejected Pauley's narrow definition of «repeat infringer» as only covering users who upload infringing content, rather than ones who downloaded songs for personal entertainment.

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.

Ragusa «submitted evidence showing that [he] was elected chairman of the Queens County Republican Party at a Queens County Republican Party meeting held on or about Oct. 3, 2009, and that the statewide Republican Party subsequently recognized Ragusa as chairman of the Queens County Republican Party,» the appellate judges wrote in their decision Tuesday against Berney.

In Thursday's ruling, the appellate court ruled the judge's erroneous instruction to the jury at Silver's trial «was not harmless because it is not clear beyond a reasonable doubt that a rational jury would have reached the same conclusion if properly instructed, as is required by law for the verdict to stand.»

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

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.

«Clearly it was very, very conservative and he had made decision after decision on the appellate court, and it ended up that he didn't get confirmed and the person who got confirmed as a Supreme Court judge — I can't even remember his name.»

As a footnote, Peters» distinguished judicial career — she'll retire as chief judge of the district appellate court — got off to a curious starAs a footnote, Peters» distinguished judicial career — she'll retire as chief judge of the district appellate court — got off to a curious staras chief judge of the district appellate court — got off to a curious start.

Kavanagh, a former Ulsterdistrict attorney, is an appellate judge and should he be re-elected as a sitting judge would likely be reappointed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

The list also ensured that the next chief judge of the state's highest court won't come from the state's appellate level, as Cuomo's last three nominees to the court did.

Still, as a federal appellate judge, Gorsuch has issued hundreds of opinions that offer some idea of where he might stand on health and science issues.

Named as the nation's 15th chief justice by President Richard M. Nixon in 1969, Mr. Burger disappointed Mr. Nixon, who admired the judicial conservativism Mr. Burger had espoused as a federal appellate judge.

A subsidiary, and, as time may tell, perhaps a more significant issue, was how an appellate court should deal, on appeal, with a legal services order made by the judge below.

In the U.S. Federal appellate courts, and maybe all of the state appellate courts, they have a procedure (as I understand it) by which a judge of the appellate court who wasn't on the hearing panel can request the full court reconsider the decision.

I really don't know, but then again neither do appellate experts such as Howard Bashman, who writes, «Just when you thought that every possible type of appellate opinion had already been created, Ninth Circuit Chief Judge Alex Kozinski goes and invents one more.»

Yet, as we all know, your average case law update spends maybe two paragraphs describing the impact of the ruling and close to 10 or 12 paragraphs setting out the background facts, the arguments by counsel, the findings of the trial judge (with quotes) and the conclusions of any appellate decisions (also with quotes).

The appellate court construed Gonzalez «as indicating that the trial judge must not assume the maximum amount of attorney fees permissible under MICRA constitutes reasonable fees.

[26] In a case such as this, the essence of the complaint is not that the reasons are functionally insufficient — the parties agree that on their face, the reasons explain what was decided and provide a basis for appellate review — but rather that the judge's wholesale incorporation of the material of others shows that he did not put his mind to the issues and decide them impartially.

HJR 1 as filed limits appellate judges (Supreme Court and District Courts of Appeal) to 12 consecutive years in office and prohibits them from being reappointed for 1 year after leaving office.

The appellate court judges are required to presume the jury's decisions at trial were correct — as long as the record on appeal contains evidence to support the jury's verdict.

Accused went to cottage of JC with whom she previously cohabited — Accused found JC with victim, another lady, in sauna — Angry words were exchanged between accused and JC — Victim testified that accused pushed her following verbal exchange, as a result victim lost balance and ended up against stove, thereby sustaining serious burns to body — Trial judge accepted victim's evidence that there was some kind of pushing — Accused convicted on one count of assault causing bodily harm, and sentenced to two - year term of probation and $ 1,000.00 fine, and accused was also ordered to provide DNA sample pursuant to s. 487.04 of Criminal Code — Accused appealed — Appeal against conviction dismissed — Although trial judge did not address analytical steps in order, he properly analyzed evidence and concluded that injuries sustained by victim were not accidental and could not have occurred in any other fashion than as stated by victim — Having provided reasons for accepting victim's evidence, trial judge was entitled to reject accused's evidence — Trial judge's reasoning, though skeletal, permitted accused and appellate court to determine how and why finding resulted.

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.

As a Principal of Newman ADR, retired Justice Sandra Schultz Newman uses her experience as a former Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice to help attorneys identify likely points of contention in their briefs, to anticipate questions that will be asked, to organize the appellate argument, and to be primed and ready to give clear, crisp and on - point answers to a judge or justice's querieAs a Principal of Newman ADR, retired Justice Sandra Schultz Newman uses her experience as a former Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice to help attorneys identify likely points of contention in their briefs, to anticipate questions that will be asked, to organize the appellate argument, and to be primed and ready to give clear, crisp and on - point answers to a judge or justice's querieas a former Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice to help attorneys identify likely points of contention in their briefs, to anticipate questions that will be asked, to organize the appellate argument, and to be primed and ready to give clear, crisp and on - point answers to a judge or justice's queries.

As a former law clerk of both a trial judge and an appellate judge, Brennan spent countless hours in the courtroom, which have given him a unique understanding of both trial practice and the appellate process.

This marks the second effort in the last several years to have intermediate appellate court judges sit as trial judges; Michigan made a similar move in 2013 when it made specially designated judges of that state's Court of Appeals into the state's Court of Claims.

Judge Erickson is as qualified as they come for judicial candidates for the federal appellate bench.

Only three days after Judge Kaplan's spectacular ruling in the Chevron / Ecuador case, notes Paul Barrett at Business Week, «a state appellate court in California upheld a trial judge's finding that what had been billed as a watershed liability verdict against Dole Food over pesticide use in Nicaragua was actually the product of a corrupt conspiracy by plaintiffs» lawyers.&rJudge Kaplan's spectacular ruling in the Chevron / Ecuador case, notes Paul Barrett at Business Week, «a state appellate court in California upheld a trial judge's finding that what had been billed as a watershed liability verdict against Dole Food over pesticide use in Nicaragua was actually the product of a corrupt conspiracy by plaintiffs» lawyers.&rjudge's finding that what had been billed as a watershed liability verdict against Dole Food over pesticide use in Nicaragua was actually the product of a corrupt conspiracy by plaintiffs» lawyers.»

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.

As mentioned supra, many appellate court judges have expressed a strong preference for clear and precise language in appellate briefs.

Opponents of commission - based appointment of judges — also known as the Missouri Plan, for the state in which the judicial selection process originated — have obtained approval from the secretary of state for two identically worded proposed constitutional amendments that would establish contested elections for Missouri's appellate judges.

Virginia appellate judges as of today (July 1), will see their mandatory judicial retirement age increase from 70 to 73 under a bill signed into law this spring.

With respect to the judge, the first instance process and the appellate process are very different and it does not follow as night follows day that what is essential for one is also essential for the other.»

Smith's Blawg Review # 123 is styled as an appellate decision that sets a great precedent for future Blawg Reviews by covering a wide range of subjects, from the Nixon Peabody theme song debacle to judges who write and cite law blogs.

In reviewing the trial judge's order, the Court of Appeals took offense at the comment, feeling that the trial court had unfairly lashed out at the appellate judges because precedent precluded the judge from resolving the case as he saw fit.

The difficulty with that argument was, as the appeal judge accepted, virtually all appellate judges and many High Court judges are not at the aforesaid face.

The court confirmed that an appellate court should interfere only where a mistake is made as to an «extricable question of law» or where overall the trial judge reached a completely irrational decision.

Given that the two are necessarily bound up as part of a unitary determination by the trial judge, what clarification do we therefore have as to how the appellate courts should go about their role?

There are forums for every court and judge in the federal judiciary, as well as forums for federal judicial nominees (here is the forum for John Roberts) and federal appellate court opinions.

Many appellate court judges are known as «feeder judges» as they have a history of having their former clerks hired by the Supreme Court.

As a young lawyer or intern, most attorneys will judge your lawyerly skills not by reading your appellate briefs or summary judgment motions — but by reading your emails.

The resolution expresses the CBA's view that to achieve «a reconciliation of the prior occupation of Canada by Indigenous societies with the subsequent assertion of Crown sovereignty» as required by s. 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982, an effort must be made to appoint aboriginal judges to appellate level Canadian courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada.

HJR 1096 Allows salary increases for trial judges, but not for appellate judges, as recommended by Board on Judicial Compensation.