Sentences with phrase «before appellate judges»

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Students write briefs and present oral arguments before an appellate judging panel using a fictitious constitutional case.

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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.

He urged the judge to direct them to pursue their motion pending before the appellate court and allow the proceedings at the lower court to continue.

Conservative activist Robert Schulz appeared before a four - judge appellate panel yesterday afternoon to argue two cases — one looking back two years to the SAFE Act, another looking two years ahead to a potential constitutional convention.

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.

In particular if I lost at the appellate court, I'd petition for en - banc review by all the judges in that appellate court before appealing to the Supreme Court.

With over one hundred trials and fifteen arguments in the federal appellate courts, I have appeared before a lot of judges and seen good and bad practices from the bench and believe that I have learned from them.

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.

We represents businesses before state and federal courts, juries and judges, arbitration panels and state and federal administrative agencies, and United States Courts of Appeals, state appellate courts and administrative appeals boards.

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.

Some might argue that an exception exists in situations where the reader knows the writer — for example, when a well - known appellate lawyer appears before a state appellate judge, that lawyer has appeared before the court many times, and both have been professional colleagues within that legal community.

On appeal, these proceedings «by indictment» are reviewed by the Court of Appeal for Ontario usually before a three member panel of appellate judges although in rare cases a five member panel will sit.

The bill would require recusal by any judge or justice «when a party or party's attorney to the proceeding before the judge was a member of the appellate judicial commission or a circuit judicial commission who nominated the judge.»

• 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.

One judge on the appellate panel held that the income was not deductible because the employee had been working at the job before termination with the employer's tacit consent.

I try cases before juries and judges, and I argue cases before federal and state appellate courts.

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.

In the event that removal is recommended, a seven - member Review Tribunal of appellate justices, also appointed by the Texas Supreme Court, will review the record of the public trial and the hearing before the Commission to determine if the judge should be removed from office.

(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.

Whatever one thinks about the Court's purported moves to the right on other issues, in the arena of criminal sentencing, federal defendants certainly should be more hopeful arguing before the current Justices than before any other group of appellate judges.

Arguing a complex case before appellate or trial judges is an arduous process, even for the most experienced lawyers.

We acted for the Gallery in its successful defence of the arbitration, and in the subsequent arbitral appeal before a panel of distinguished retired appellate judges.

(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.

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.

A trial judge's holding in this regard must be «plainly», [5] «fundamentally» [6] or «clearly» [7] incorrect before appellate interference will be justifiable.

Now Counsel Network freelance lawyers have experience writing for all kinds of audiences, from appellate judges, to sophisticated businesspeople, to litigants who have never before been involved in a legal proceeding.

Because it is not clear to me that the de novo findings of appellate courts, with only bare records before them, are likely to be any more reliable than the findings reached by trial judges, I can not join the majority's sanctioning of factual second - guessing by appellate courts.

[30] Having concluded that the reasons of the Small Claims Court were facially incapable of appellate review, the Divisional Court was obliged to consider the record before the trial judge to determine if the reasons were more comprehensible when read in the context of this record.

(b) before any administrative board or tribunal over which the court on which the judge served exercised an appellate or judicial review jurisdiction

But the petitioners were invoking the «special jurisdiction» which had been provided for under Section 14 of the Supreme Court Act, to have the Supreme Court re-determine the cause: on the ground that one of the appellate judges had lacked rectitude, so that this was a matter fit for re-opening before the Supreme Court.