Select any judge to bring up the same types of analytics discussed above — most - frequently
cited opinions of that judge and the opinions, courts and judges that judge most frequently cites.
Not exact matches
Yesterday, five
judges of the International Tribunal against Monsanto stated in their advisory
opinion that the corporation «has engaged in practices which have negatively impacted the right to a healthy environment, the right to food, and the right to health»
citing its widespread dissemination
of dangerous agrochemicals in industrial agriculture, the introduction and release
of GM crops, and introduction
of persistent organic pollutants such as PCB in the environment.
She has been extremely vocal about her
opinions on breastfeeding
citing that when one chooses to breastfeed, then one's duties and responsibilities are to feed the child regardless
of how people might
judge you.
On Tuesday, in the first
of four notes sent by jurors to U.S. District
Judge Valerie Caproni, one panel member asked to be excused,
citing discomfort and a difference
of opinion with the others.
They will prepare a minimum three - paragraph
opinion for the
judge and jury,
citing at least three pieces
of evidence to support their position for or against Roger.
The enterprising Ian Best, at his blog 3L Epiphany, scores an interview about blogs with U.S. District
Judge Richard G. Kopf
of Nebraska, who recently
cited to a legal blog in an
opinion.
Judges in two Iowa counties
cited the admission as grounds for granting new trials in two cases
of men locked up in part based on Belanger's
opinion that they were dangerous.
Greene has not
cited — and the Court has not found — a single statute, regulation, rule, or judicial
opinion holding that a litigant has a right
of access (under the First Amendment, the common law, or anything else) to communications between a
judge and his or her law clerk, including draft
opinions and orders.
Ravel Law and Bloomberg can provide data on how often your trial
judge's
opinions are
cited by other courts — an indicator
of how well respected the
judge is by his or her peers — as well as how often the
judge is appealed, and how many
of those appeals have been partially or completely successful.
In an unpublished
opinion of this length and depth, rest assured that this case was important to the panel
of judges assigned to hear and decide it; and I can reasonably assure you that they will not forget this case in the future, even though you may not be able to
cite it in the present.
A sharply divided panel
of the Seventh Circuit, led by
Judge Posner, addressed the issue
of such research in deciding an appeal by a pro se prisoner alleging his civil rights had been violated by inadequate medical treatment.21
Judge Posner's majority
opinion reversing the judgment below
cited facts from various extrarecord medical websites, including Wikipedia.
Although it is hard to be certain without more publicly available information, FISC
judges likely treat their
opinions as non-precedential, as is standard practice for federal district courts.19 The relatively few public FISC
opinions do
cite earlier FISC
opinions and principles
of law, 20 but we have seen no clear evidence to suggest that the
judges feel formally bound by those earlier
opinions in any manner that would set them apart from other Article III district courts.
In a post where he appears to reveal more than his
opinion of the numbers, Volokh writes, «This isn't some liberal
judge on the Ninth Circuit slamming the immigration bureaucracy — it's a moderate conservative,
citing many
opinions from the Seventh Circuit (which has a reputation as being pretty sane).
I think the key insight is that newspaper stories don't
cite sources to give credit, they
cite sources to give readers a way to
judge the accuracy and importance
of a statement
of fact or
opinion in a news story.