Sentences with phrase «circuit judge»

A circuit judge is a type of judge who presides over cases in a specific geographic area, or circuit. They handle a variety of legal matters and ensure fair judgments in their assigned region. Full definition
My own law clerks — young lawyers who have never tried a case or even taken a deposition — often go to jobs that pay them more than the salary of circuit judges.
It's okay for a federal circuit judge to not know how to turn on a computer.
The senior judges fill in for district and circuit judges who are ill, on vacation, or otherwise unavailable.
That is where the former circuit judge has spent much of his time since he retired in 2006.
As anticipated in previous diary disappearing circuit judge replaced by wandering part - timers, of which first appeared today.
Broward County Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer denied the request Feb. 26, according to court records.
Nikolas Cruz appears in court for a status hearing before Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer.
* Honorable Arthur L. Alarcon, Senior U.S. Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, sitting by designation.
The O'Brien case will come before a panel of Ninth Circuit judges for consideration of his appeal at a yet - unscheduled date.
Years of litigation, an unpaid loan and fraud on the court all added up to more than $ 11 million awarded by a Gloucester County Circuit judge on a summary judgment motion.
Nikolas Cruz appears in open court for the first time on Monday, Feb. 19, 2018, during a status hearing before Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer.
Judge Thornton is a Senior Circuit Judge at the Central Criminal Court (Old Bailey).
The case is being heard in a bench trial before Circuit Judge Dorothy Kirie Kinnaird, who asked attorneys to have their closing arguments prepared for Thursday.
En banc Sixth Circuit issues Fourth Amendment search warrant ruling: The first paragraph of today's majority opinion, written by Circuit Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton, explains:
He stepped down as circuit judge in December 2003 to become a senior judge, who travels around the state to relieve backlogged dockets.
Today, a unanimous three - judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued this decision, written by Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner.
The second half of Seventh Circuit Judge Richard Posner's provocative and essential Green Bag essay on the federal judiciary is out, here.
The OIN «protects» Dalvik, but Oracle left the OIN a while ago and is currently not pursuing patent but copyright claims against Android (and it's now on the winning track based on the positions taken by three Federal Circuit judges at an appellate hearing earlier this month).
Mauro reports that 9th Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski lead «a significant faction of appeals judges» against the rule, «complaining that it would exponentially increase their workload by forcing them to polish and beef up the unpublished opinions.»
But according to the motion filed Friday, the appellate court ignored the words of Cook County Circuit Judge Dorothy Kinnaird, who said the state had «virtually no chance of success» in its lawsuit.
When the agency agreed with Circuit Judge Kimberly A. Moore's understanding that a denial of institution on redundancy grounds was not a «substantive» determination, but rather meant that the issues not instituted were «redundant in terms of too many different grounds of rejection,» she criticized the practice as resembling «Putting a blindfold on and throwing darts at a wall and deciding which grounds to go forward with.
The D.C. Circuit judges said that in any case where the actual - loss calculation is too complex to permit a timely calculation of restitution, federal judges can hold additional hearings «or to decline to order restitution at all, not to issue an order unsupported by the evidence.»
Facebook Likes are substantive speech, and therefore protected under the First Amendment, wrote U.S. Circuit Judge William Traxler.
My partner - in - blog Carolyn Elefant did a great job yesterday rounding up the first 24 hours» reaction among bloggers and pundits to President Obama's nomination of 2nd Circuit Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court.
Consider the Difficult Logistics of Persuasion as an Appellant I once heard Federal Circuit Judge Michael Boudin speak about the three things that most surprised him as a new judge.
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 Associated Press reports that Franklin County Circuit judge Thomas Wingate ruled yesterday that the Florida - based organization run by Christian Care Ministry must acquire approval from the Kentucky Department of Insurance before it can continue operations in the state.
Second Circuit judge Jose Cabranes, who would later become her colleague, put this point more charitably in a 1995 interview with The New York Times: «She is not intimidated or overwhelmed by the eminence or power or prestige of any party, or indeed of the media.»
If Franklin Circuit Judge Thomas D. Wingate rules that the program ends this summer, it could lead to a spike in judicial retirements.
Mr. Bennett is a former law clerk to the Hon. Anthony M. Kennedy, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, and to the Hon. J. L. Edmondson, United States Circuit Judge for the Eleventh Circuit.
What do circuit judges do when they hang up their robes?
Chris joined attorneys Kevin Moulton and Aaron Gartlan in forming the law firm, Moulton, Capps & Gartlan, P.C., prior to Kevin Moulton being appointed Circuit Judge for the Twentieth Judicial Circuit.
The Federal Circuit panel of Circuit Judges Timothy Dyk, Jimmie Reyna and Richard Taranto noted that «the matter at hand reveals a gap in our jurisprudence on...
However, in a concurring opinion, Fifth Circuit Judge Edith Jones distinguished between Venters» case and one in which a female employee might request «special accommodations» because of lactation, which Jones said would not be guaranteed under the act.
Fifth Circuit Judge Edith H. Jones wrote in the majority opinion that the DOL rule «fails the reasonableness test» of the Administrative Procedures Act by extending the department's ERISA authority to one - time IRA rollovers and similar transactions.
In Compassion in Dying v. Washington, Ninth Circuit Judge Reinhardt literally dared the Supreme Court to reverse Hardwick v. Bowers (the five» to» four decision in 1986 that upheld Georgia's statute against sodomy).
On Aug. 4, Leon County Circuit Judge John C. Cooper will conduct a hearing on this challenge.
Former Circuit Judge Robert Doyel, a Winter Haven Democrat and candidate for Senate District 22, is receiving what no other Polk County Democrat has received in more than two decades: support from his state party.
The late Circuit Judge James M. Carter envisioned the establishment of a defender organization that could provide the justice system high quality indigent defense in the new district.
On March 29, 2011, IPF received a fax from circuit judge Marc Gilner granting Williams a new trial.
One of the speakers was 3rd Circuit Judge Jane R. Roth, who discussed the standards the circuit will apply.
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