Sentences with phrase «circuit judges»

After the Federal Circuit threw out his non-copyrightability decision as fundamentally wrong, many Judge Alsup admirers remained loyal to their hero and thought that the Federal Circuit judges just didn't understand the issues.

Salaries of justices of the supreme court, of the judges of the court of appeals, of the circuit judges within a circuit, and of the probate judges within a county or district, shall be uniform, and may be increased but shall not be decreased during a term of office except and only to the extent of a general salary reduction in all other branches of government.

Commentators thought that Judge Alsup had made his non-copyrightability decision in Oracle v. Google very appeals - proof, but it was a flawed ruling in various respects, so very hard to defend on appeal that it would be too diplomatic to say it merely failed to impress the circuit judges.

County Judges are often assigned to work as Circuit Judges.

Pursuant to Article III of the Constitution, justices of the Supreme Court, circuit judges and district judges receive lifetime appointments and protection against reduction in salary.3 Congress created the bankruptcy courts pursuant to its power under Article I of the Constitution and Article I bankruptcy judges do not enjoy the tenure and salary protections afforded to Article III judges under the Constitution.

Salaries of Circuit Judges shall be uniform throughout the state.

According to two federal circuit judges, the idea to combine sports memorabilia and trading cards should have been obvious, and was thus not patentable.

«There isn't much evidence that higher judicial salaries impact the performance of the federal circuit judges,» said Scott Baker, a law professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law who recently tested the notion.

We can welcome the brave new world of child support magistrates» court appeals in the county court (I know of two circuit judges who, to my knowledge, have experience of one child support case each; and on the same point they made different decisions — which is relevant, as will be seen below).

Circuit judges will wear their existing gown and lilac tippet without a wig, or bands, wing collar / collarette.

Howard Bashman, author of How Appealing, warns in an article («Commentary: Have 7th Circuit Judges Gone Off the Deep End?»)

that the 7th Circuit judges Posner and Easterbrook risk becoming «fusspots and nitpickers» when they berate or sanction attorneys for minor and inconsequential mistakes.

From 1 October 2008, all judges and members of the High Court Masters Group (which includes masters of the Chancery or Queen's Bench Division, district judges of the principal registry of the Family Division, bankruptcy registrars and costs judges), other than circuit judges, will wear the new civil gown without a wig, or bands, wing collar / collarette.

His study, which will be published next month in the Boston University Law Review, showed circuit judges» performance, based on opinions, didn't change from region to region with the varying spread between their pay and the next best professional opportunity.

Consider the two circuit judges already mentioned.

Circuit Judges had suffered the most — 156 judges took 3,079 days off in 2015/16 and 185 judges were ill on 3,410 days in 2016/17.

Longmore and McFarlane LJJ said: «While we would not wish to incorporate all the learning about wasted costs orders into decisions under CPR part 27.14 (2)(g), we think that the above dictum should give sufficient guidance on the word «unreasonably» to district judges and circuit judges dealing with cases allocated to the small claims track.

Little surprise that Supreme Court justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sandra Day O'Connor, William Rehnquist, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas and circuit judges Alex Kozinski and Richard Posner made the list.

He has been appointed by the Outagamie County Circuit judges to act as interim court commissioner during vacancies and family leave.

In the matter of the designation of circuit judges of the First Circuit of the State of Hawaii to act as circuit family judges

In South Carolina, Circuit Judges may be elected by the legislature to «at - large» positions allowing them to serve anywhere in the state.

But as Ross Runkel recounts at LawMemo Employment Law Blog, it took a panel of 16 circuit judges to come up with that short answer, and they split 10 to 6, with three different dissenting opinions filed.

Though this week ought to be relatively slow with the coming holiday, I suspect that appellate pacing ought to allow circuit judges to cacth up with Rita this week.

The Aqua Products rehearing will present an important opportunity for Federal Circuit judges to debate the operation of AIA trials under somewhat restrictive USPTO PTAB procedures.

The declaring code of the 37 Java APIs is, and the Federal Circuit judges, who never claimed to have learned Java or any other programming language, accurately noted that apart from maybe 3 APIs, those are separate from the Java language, while Judge Alsup conflated language and API issues.

They included the circuit judges, the district judges, the magistrates, Anne Owers, chief inspector of prisons and the academics other than David Thomas and Nicola Padfield.

A saving of # 500 in the hearing fee on claims in the plus # 15,000 to # 25,000 band; prospectively lower trial costs; a trial window within 30 weeks of allocation; concurrent trial jurisdiction of district judges with circuit judges; and probably a bias against a case management conference.

The judiciary of the single family court will include High Court judges, circuit judges, recorders, district judges (including district judges of the magistrates» court), magistrates and legal advisers (justices» clerks).

Not everyone is overjoyed at the prospect: Charles Harris, last year's president of the Council of Circuit Judges, also told BBC's Today:

These days circuit judges do have jurisdiction to hear a small claim but the queue for doing so is not long and the circuit judge concerned must consent to have the case allocated to them (CPR PD 2B para 11.2).

What do circuit judges do when they hang up their robes?

We have been well - served by solicitor circuit judges over the years, with HHJ Graham Jones and Hickinbottom J (as he now is) having been our designated civil judges.

Mar. 24, 2016)-- joint opinion by Circuit Judges O'Scannlain and Ikuta as well as District Judge Burns (sitting by assignment); discussed in our Mar. 28, 2016 post: Prevailing party in bankruptcy non-dischargeability action is not entitled to recover fees under either California Civil Code section 1717 or ERISA's fee shifting provision.

For a circuit that lacks cohesion (both interpersonal and in legal terms), an easy fix is to get more panels where the whole panel is made up of actual sixth circuit judges.

Those eleven judges are Chief Judge Alex Kozinski and Circuit Judges Stephen Reinhardt, Pamela A. Rymer, Barry G. Silverman, M. Margaret McKeown, William A. Fletcher, Raymond C. Fisher, Richard A. Paez, Carlos T. Bea, Milan D. Smith, Jr., and N. Randy Smith.

Another key difference between the bills is how long Circuit Judges would remain in office.

You draw a panel with two circuit judges on opposite ends of the ideological spectrum, with no idea how the district judge might rule, and in any event your case might get en banc granted.

For example, the Council of Her Majesty's Circuit Judges was drawn «inexorably» to «the conclusion that little or no consideration» had been given to the impact upon the courts of «limited and poor quality representation and the potential for injustice».

(How Appealing, Third Circuit judges to decide Second Circuit case)

Forget the Supreme Court; that argument would not survive even the friendliest panel of D.C. Circuit judges.

Enjoy the current installment of «weekend reading for financial planners» — this week's edition kicks off with the news that the DoL fiduciary rule still isn't quite dead yet, with the attorney generals of three states now appealing to the full group of 5th Circuit judges to (re --RRB- consider their request to take up the defense of the DoL fiduciary rule after the Department of Justice declined to defend it themselves, suggesting that it's inappropriate that the judges who vacated the fiduciary rule itself should also be allowed to determine alone whether the states should be allowed to appeal their ruling.

But in both appeals, the Third Circuit judges said school officials may not penalize students for writing or speech that is created and circulated out of school and causes no disruption of school activities.

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.»

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.

One of three 9th circuit judges dissenting from this month's ruling argued that backing the decision by school officials» permits the will of the mob to rule our schools.»

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.

The case is pending before a different panel of Second Circuit judges.

In Arkansas, circuit judges like Maggio handle divorce cases, among other civil and criminal casework.

Yet the Ninth Circuit judges expressed skepticism of Trump's use of Obama's policy to justify his immigration ban.

«The States argue that the Executive Order violates the Establishment and Equal Protection Clauses because it was intended to disfavor Muslims,» the Ninth Circuit judges wrote on Thursday.