Sentences with phrase «by circuit court judge»

The Mississippi House earlier this week approved a plan discussed here to have constitutional challenges to state laws heard by a Circuit Court judge handpicked by the state's Chief Justice.

Republican leadership said Monday it was prepared to insert into the budget measures that would eliminate most collective bargaining rights for public workers unless the High Court ruled on the bill, which had been blocked by circuit court judge Maryann Sumi because of concerns over the state's open meetings law.

Served as Moderator for a Panel Discussion by Circuit Court Judges, What Civil Judges Want You To Know, 2009

Not exact matches

«A ruling by a single judge in one circuit can not and does not undo the years of clear legal precedent nationwide establishing that transgender students have the right to go to school without being singled out for discrimination,» said a statement from five groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), that have filed «friend of the court» briefs on behalf of transgender students.

The Justice Department urged the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond to lift a stay imposed by a Maryland federal judge March 16th blocking the administration from carrying out the executive order.

In a decision released by the Baltimore Circuit Court, Judge Martin P. Welch wrote that the 35 - year - old was being granted a new trial because his initial council failed to properly cross-examine an expert from the state about the reliability of cell tower data that seemed to place him at the scene of the crime.

That hearing was followed up by Trump announcing his seventh wave of judicial nominees, an additional 15 names that are about to be submitted to the Senate, bringing the total number of district and circuit court judges he's nominated to roughly 50 — blowing far past the number of judicial nominations made at this stage of a presidency by any recent predecessors.

«Appellants sustained their burden of showing injury by alleging that they paid artificially fixed higher prices,» Circuit Judge Dennis Jacobs wrote for a three - judge appeals court pJudge Dennis Jacobs wrote for a three - judge appeals court pjudge appeals court panel.

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.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the ruling on Friday, saying the family had not persuaded the three - judge panel «that the individual prayers or other remarks to be given by students at graduation are, in fact, school - sponsored.»

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.

The last - minute rewrite prompted a federal judge in September to dismiss challenges by Wheaton College and Belmont Abbey, but the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed to consider the cases.

Judge Wilken, and later three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, concluded that the NCAA and its nearly 1,300 members violated antitrust law by unlawfully conspiring to prevent players from negotiating the monetary value of their names, images and likenesses.

Wednesday's decision to move the case by U.S. District Judge Karen Schreier in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, is a defeat for ABC News, a unit of Walt Disney Co, and returned the lawsuit by Beef Products Inc (BPI) and two affiliates back to the Union County Circuit Court in that state.

He said that Burroughs had been sworn in before Circuit Court Judge Arthur Dunne issued a stay order on Washington appointments that were approved May 9 by the City Council and that the Netsch appointment, approved June 6, was not covered by the order and not subject to a legal challenge.

He was stripped of power by allies of Mayor Harold Washington three weeks ago in a move affirmed last week by a Cook County Circuit Court judge.

A circuit court judge's decision in favor of the sale was then appealed by the group, according to the documents.

Ryan is to appear Tuesday before Judge Edwin Berman in Cook County Circuit Court to ask for the same type of order Berman issued Jan. 8 that ordered cemeteries to permit burial of Jews who already own burial plots in the cemeteries affected by the strike and lockout.

This was at a time when the appointing authorities were not privy to the alleged acts of misconduct or wrongdoings brought against him and 21 Circuit Court Judges and Magistrates who have been referred to the Chief Justice to be dealt with in accordance with Article 151 of the 1992 Constitution by tigereyepi for alleged stated misbehaviour.

The High Court, presided over by Court of Appeal judge, Justice Dominic Dennis Adjei, ruled that it was improper for police officers desiring to stop a street protest, to obtain an injunction from the Circuit Court.

The Second Circuit found that a new Supreme Court decision narrowing public corruption laws in a case involving former Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell required different instructions than those used by Manhattan U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni.

Silver was convicted of using his political influence for political favors; the conviction was tossed last summer, when appellate judges in the 2nd Circuit ruled that the definition of «official acts» had been changed by a previous Supreme Court decision in the public corruption case of former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Manhattan concluded, in light of the Supreme Court's narrower definition, that the jury instructions given by the judge in Mr. Silver's trial were erroneous and that a properly instructed jury might not have convicted him.

According to the statement, the names of the three were left out when the Council announced its unanimous decision last week to remove from office 20 out of the 21 Circuit Court Judges and District Magistrates investigated by the Disciplinary Committee for their involvement in allegations of bribery by Tigereyepi.

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.

Jepsen, also a Democrat, announced in December 2013 that he was suspending an effort to get the U.S. Supreme Court to review a ruling against the state by a three - judge panel of the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in May of that year, and instead said he would try to limit the state's exposure to damages by seeking to negotiate a settlement with SEBAC.

The 2nd Circuit said the instructions given to the Silver jury by the trial judge were consistent with precedential rulings in other cases prior to the Supreme Court decision in the McDonnell case.

The report is accompanied by commentaries from several notable experts, including Senior Circuit Judge Andre M. Davis of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and renowned memory researcher Elizabeth F. Loftus of the University of California, Irvine.

A county circuit court judge today quashed a subpoena issued by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli that sought documents related to work by climate scientist Michael Mann, according to The Washington Post.

A panel of judges from the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is expected to rule this week on whether a temporary halt placed on the order by a federal district judge should be kept in place.

The challengers — an alliance of energy and fossil fuel companies and coal - producing states — wanted the court «to do something that they candidly acknowledge we have never done before: review the legality of a proposed rule,» wrote Judge Brett Kavanaugh of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in an opinion unanimously backed by a three - judge pcourt «to do something that they candidly acknowledge we have never done before: review the legality of a proposed rule,» wrote Judge Brett Kavanaugh of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in an opinion unanimously backed by a three - judge pJudge Brett Kavanaugh of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in an opinion unanimously backed by a three - judge pCourt of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in an opinion unanimously backed by a three - judge pjudge panel.

A Northern Kentucky circuit - court judge has voided a utility - tax increase imposed by the Campbell County school board, ruling that the state's 1990 education - reform law requires voter approval of such increases.

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 discriminaCourt 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 discriminacourt last October that had struck down the district's student - assignment policy as unconstitutionally discriminatory.

In a terse, one - page order, the justices ruled 7 to 0 that any appeal in the school - finance case would had to have been filed by July 21, 1993, four months after Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge Eugene W. Reese issued the controversial ruling.

On Nov. 13, State Circuit Court Judge James Giddings of Ingham County granted the state's request to dismiss the lawsuit by four church schools on the grounds that a 1986 ruling in another case had already decided the issue.

In December 2000, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit affirmed Judge Oliver's ruling by a 2 - 1 vote.

An injunction issued by a lone circuit - court judge ordering striking teachers across West Virginia to return to their classrooms last March was illegal, the state supreme court has ruled.

Handed down this month, the unanimous ruling by the state's highest court said Kanawha County Circuit Judge John Hey had overstepped his jurisdiction when he issued the injunction against striking teachers statewide.

The ruling by a three - judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, issued March 12, remands for trial a decision issued last year by U.S. District Judge Neal P. McCurn of Syracuse,judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, issued March 12, remands for trial a decision issued last year by U.S. District Judge Neal P. McCurn of Syracuse,Judge Neal P. McCurn of Syracuse, N.Y.

U.S. Circuit Court Judge Edward R. Becker said in a speech here that for the past several years he has felt like «Cassandra,» the daughter of the king of Troy who was endowed with the gift of prophecy but fated by Apollo never to be believed.

The author of this article, Danielle Nadler, explains more specifically that, «A Richmond Circuit Court judge has ruled that [the] VDOE [Virginia Department of Education] must release Loudoun County Public Schools» Student Growth Percentile [SGP] scores by school and by teacher... [including] teacher identifying information.»

The following April, a Richmond Circuit Court judge ruled that the Virginia Department of Education was to also release Loudoun County Public Schools» SGP scores by school and by teacher, including teachers» identifying information.

Today a circuit court judge dismissed the lawsuit, ruling that the plaintiffs lacked standing to sue because they could not show how they were harmed by the law.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Charter school advocates in Florida and around the nation today hailed a ruling by Leon County Circuit Court Judge John C. Cooper, who yesterday threw out a legal challenge filed by 14 Florida school boards.

A copy of the request for a three - judge court shall be immediately furnished by such clerk to the chief judge of the circuit (or in his absence, the presiding circuit judge of the circuit) in which the case is pending.

On the grounds that Judge Denise Cote's decision to move forward with the classification and damages phases of the trial on going case, Apple managed to win a stay by the three - judge panel of the Second Circuit court, at least forJudge Denise Cote's decision to move forward with the classification and damages phases of the trial on going case, Apple managed to win a stay by the three - judge panel of the Second Circuit court, at least forjudge panel of the Second Circuit court, at least for now.

On 4/18/2014, Unhappy with the Judge's decision, the Board requested that it be overruled by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Virginia Attorney General and global warming denier Ken Cuccinelli has been rebuffed by a state Circuit Court judge who ruled today that Cuccinelli's politically - charged subpoena against the University of Virginia and climate scientist Michael Mann lacked an «objective basis.»

Recent strong dissenting opinions by two D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals judges may persuade the Supreme Court to review one or more of the agency's GHG rules — or even reassess its ruling in Mass. v. EPA.