Sentences with phrase «as circuit judge»

He stepped down as circuit judge in December 2003 to become a senior judge, who travels around the state to relieve backlogged dockets.

She has many years of outstanding service as a Circuit Judge.

Today President Donald J. Trump announced his intent to nominate an eleventh wave of judicial nominees as follows: If confirmed, Mark J. Bennett of Hawaiʻi will serve as a Circuit Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

During his distinguished legal career he served as Circuit Judge for the 5th Judicial Circuit from 1983 - 2007; Administrative Judge, Family Law Division, Marion County, 1991 - 2007; Fifth Circuit Family Law Administrative Judge, 2007 - 2007 and Marion County Judge from 1979 to 1983.

Elvin Payton, 26, did not speak as Circuit Judge Vincent Gaughan imposed the term in the slaying of Michael Norton, 55, who owned Mike's Sweet Shop.

County Judges are often assigned to work as Circuit Judges.

Not exact matches

On Thursday, the Ninth Circuit denied the government's emergency appeal to lift the Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) on Trump's immigration order issued last week by a federal judge in Seattle, indicating in its opinion that Trump's past comments about a «Muslim ban» can be used as evidence for discrimination.

Gorsuch incorporated wariness of executive power in a dissent after the full 10th Circuit declined to rehear a three - judge panel's ruling that a sex offender should comply with detailed rules about registering as a sex offender.

7th US Circuit Court of Appeals nominee Amy Coney Barrett, a Notre Dame law professor, was questioned intensely about her Catholic faith as a result of past writings expressing her beliefs on whether Catholic judges should recuse themselves from death - penalty cases if they believed they would be unable to impartially uphold the law, writing that — in limited situations — judges should step back in cases that conflict with their personal conscience.

Last week, AARP filed an appeal of the Fifth Circuit ruling, while New York, Oregon and California filed a motion asking the court for permission to rehear the case in front of the full panel of judges — known as an en banc review.

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.

Trump criticized judges in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, saying his presidency would reshape the judiciary and change courts such as that one.

In 1994, President Bill Clinton appointed Mr. Henry to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, where he served until June 2010, most recently as Chief Judge.

Chang Qiang Zhu's behavior began to suffer only after the immigration judge asked him specific questions, such as what form of persecution the Apostle Paul used against Christians and what year Paul converted to Christianity, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled.

As a judge in the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, Gorsuch wrote a concurring opinion supporting Hobby Lobby's contraception mandate exemption — a ruling ultimately upheld by the Supreme Court.

I judge that the greatest short circuit in the whole hookup of denominational and world church agitation for charitable mission lies in the failure to provide for the process of forming a convictional consensus on the part of church groups so that they own particular projects as their God - given task and opportunity.

USA Today: Ruling lets S.C. students earn credit for religion classes In a ruling that advocates called «a tremendous victory for religious education,» a three - judge panel of the 4th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals upheld the right of a school district to award high school credit for religious courses, as long as they meet secular standards.

Richard Posner, a judge of the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, in a New York Times op - ed co-authored December 2 with Law Professor Eric Segall, takes Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia to task for threatening America with a «majoritarian theocracy» because of his repeated dissents, since Lawrence v. Texas, against the expansion of homosexual «rights» as a matter of Constitutional solicitude.

«We are grateful that the Circuit Court's ruling — which is substantially a victory for Wheaton College — makes it clear that the original judge was wrong to dismiss our case and that we are suffering real harm as a result of the HHS mandate,» said Wheaton College president Philip Ryken.

Federal judges, as Albanese puts it, «rode circuit with the gospel of the civil religion and preached sermons in which the Constitution, its virtue and its promise, figured prominently.

Circuit Judge Mike Maggio has been revealed as an online troll who posted sexist, racist and homophobic comments on Internet message boards.

NORTHFIELD — The Northfield Park District, as expected, filed a petition in Cook County Circuit Court on Wednesday seeking a judge «s permission to sue the Northbrook Park District over land in the Techny area.

Circuit Judge Dorothy Kirie Kinnaird said that though she had not selected a receiver, who would act as a court - appointed administrator, «I am beginning to think that's an appropriate step.»

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

The Northfield Park District, as expected, filed a petition in Cook County Circuit Court on Wednesday seeking a judge's permission to sue the Northbrook Park District over land in the Techny area.

Outside of his career as an MP and campaigner, Paul also served as a Deputy Circuit Judge and wrote extensively on history, law, and politics.

Liberal 9th Circuit Judge Stephen Reinhardt, who struck down California's Proposition 8 as well as gay marriage bans in Nevada and Idaho, and wrote a ruling that barred jurors from being removed because of sexual orientation, has died at 87.

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

The news came 15 weeks after Johnson sent a letter to U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Denise Cote, resigning from his position as monitor overseeing Westchester's compliance with a consent decree with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, HUD.

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.

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.

Before former President George W. Bush nominated him to the 10th Circuit Court, Gorsuch wrote and spoke against «judicial activism» and the perceived tendency of liberal - leaning judges to reinterpret longstanding laws as they saw appropriate.

The 2nd Circuit judges said that ruling only applies to independent corporate expenditures, and not to contributions limits such as those enacted in New York.

Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi, who had issued an order intended to block implementation of the law while she considered a challenge to its legitimacy and warned of sanctions for noncompliance, amended her order Thursday to clarify that the law had not taken effect, as Republican leaders argued it had.

According to this story, Howard Hawk, Presiding Circuit Judge for Marshall County, Alabama, will run for re-election this year as an independent candidate.

Judge Paul Peatross Jr. of Albemarle County Circuit Court found that Cuccinelli had given no reason to suspect that Mann had committed any fraud, one of the requirements of a state law that Cuccinelli used as the basis for his case.

And in the latest legal development, the plaintiffs in the case, as expected, requested yesterday that Washington, D.C., Circuit Judge Royce Lamberth decide the case quickly.

Lazarus pointed to Brett Kavanaugh, a conservative judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, as an example of a jurist who «is not ready to give EPA a lot of deference if they're taking language which was crafted at one time and trying to push it at the edges to deal with a problem of another time, like climate change.»

In a 3 - 2 ruling on June 16, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit reversed a decision by a three - judge panel of the same court last October that had struck down the district's student - assignment policy as unconstitutionally discriminatory.

In response to the Fourteenth Amendment claim, the court said that at some point, removing M.C. from the classroom and putting him in timeout might have gone so far as to deprive him of a protected interest in a public education, but the circuit judges, unlike the district court, concluded that 21 timeouts totaling approximately 12 hours over two and a half months did not go that far.

Three circuit judges concurred that the actions that Horizon took or failed to take were all connected with its role as Caviness's employer, and that what it did as such did not constitute «state action.»

The candidate is Ray Corns, who as a circuit - court judge in 1988 ruled that the state's system of school finance was unconstitutional because it allowed vast differences between...

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A lawsuit challenging the country's largest private school choice program saw a significant setback today, as a Leon County circuit judge ruled the groups behind the case did not have standing to bring the lawsuit.

The court's conservative justices said they were inclined to reverse a 9th Circuit Court decision requiring immigration judges to give a bond hearing and consider possible release for noncitizens who have been jailed for more than six months, while the liberal justices sounded unsure as to whether a specific time limit can be upheld.

Upon receipt of the copy of such request it shall be the duty of the chief justice of the circuit or the presiding circuit judge, as the case may be, to designate immediately three judges in such circuit, of whom at least one shall be a circuit judge and another of whom shall be a district judge of the court in which the proceeding was instituted, to hear and determine such case, and it shall be the duty of the judges so designated to assign the case for hearing at the earliest practicable date, to participate in the hearing and determination thereof, and to cause the case to be in every way expedited.

Upon receipt of the copy of such request it shall be the duty of the chief judge of the circuit or the presiding circuit judge, as the case may be, to designate immediately three judges in such circuit, of whom at least one shall be a circuit judge and another of whom shall be a district judge of the court in which the proceeding was instituted, to hear and determine such case, and it shall be the duty of the judges so designated to assign the case for hearing at the earliest practicable date, to participate in the hearing and determination thereof, and to cause the case to be in every way expedited.

In the event that no judge in the district is available to hear and determine the case, the chief judge of the district, or the acting chief judge, as the case may be, shall certify this fact to the chief judge of the circuit (or, in his absence, the acting chief judge) who shall then designate a district or circuit judge of the circuit to hear and determine the case.

Frank Fischer, Chairman and CEO of the Volkswagen Group of America, speaks on behalf of VW as Gary Casteel, U.A.W Region 8 Director, looks on from behind after retired circuit judge Sam Payne announced that Volkswagen employees voted to deny representation by the United Auto Workers labor union.

The 1LE is conceived primarily as a track toy for the weekend warrior, and judging by a little lapping at GingerMan Raceway, a road circuit not far from the eastern shore of Lake Michigan, the development team has put one in the target's 10 ring.