Sentences with phrase «elected judge of the court»

Not exact matches

Governor Greg Abbott has appointed Larry Phillips as judge of the 59th Judicial District Court in Grayson County for a term set to expire December 31, 2018, or until his successor shall be duly elected and qualified.

That wasn't even Olson's case, but with assists from a federal district court judge who came out as being in a same - sex relationship only after ruling and retiring, and elected officials who chose to forgo their traditional duty to vigorously defend state law, Olson and Boies did succeed in disenfranchising millions of Californians on a procedural technicality.

Raab argues passionately that the Strasbourg court and more recently the Human Rights Act have undermined democratic accountability by taking decisions into the hands of unaccountable judges and away from representatives whom the people can elect and dismiss.

In January 2006, she was elected one of the first judges of the African Court on Human and Peoples» Rights.

The possibility of electing a new chairperson of the East Hampton Town Democratic Committee was scuttled last night after a State Supreme Court judge issued a temporary restraining order on Monday forbidding the committee from conducting a vote before its June 20 meeting.

She served as a County Court Judge until 2002, when she was elected a Justice of the New York State Supreme Court.

If there is an equality of votes between constituency candidates for a district and the addition of 1 vote would entitle one of those candidates to be declared elected, the Electoral Commission must, without delay, apply to a District Court Judge for a recount under section 180, and all the provisions of that section apply accordingly, except that no deposit is necessary.

The Court of Appeals found that Brian Novak's appeal should be re-heard at the county level before someone other than Judge Matthew Sypnewski, who as a city court judge presided over Novak's original case, then considered his appeal after being elected as a Schenectady County Court jCourt of Appeals found that Brian Novak's appeal should be re-heard at the county level before someone other than Judge Matthew Sypnewski, who as a city court judge presided over Novak's original case, then considered his appeal after being elected as a Schenectady County Court jJudge Matthew Sypnewski, who as a city court judge presided over Novak's original case, then considered his appeal after being elected as a Schenectady County Court jcourt judge presided over Novak's original case, then considered his appeal after being elected as a Schenectady County Court jjudge presided over Novak's original case, then considered his appeal after being elected as a Schenectady County Court jCourt judgejudge.

New York stopped electing its top judges toward the end of Gov. Hugh Carey's administration due to concerns that the court was becoming too politicized.

So insists a collective of elected officials, including City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, City Council Immigration Committee Chair Carlos Menchaca, Public Advocate Letitia James, Comptroller Scott Stringer, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. and numerous other Councilmembers, who issued a letter to New York Chief Judge Janet DiFiore, urging her to ban U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from New York State courts.

In 1978, she was appointed Judge of the Criminal Court of the City of New York, and in 1982 was elected to the New York State Supreme Court.

A judge elected can sit in any of the five counties, depending on the needs of the court.

Unfortunately, few of the judges that the voters elected for these positions actually sit in these courts.

Elected houses have to pander to the public, the public are generally stupid; in return for a vote politicians set aside all petty considerations (like the law, morality, basic human decency and common sense) and pass stupid, kneejerk, dangerous laws (the only people to disagree with Her Majesty's government passing dangerous laws in the name of anti-terrorism were a bunch of out - of - touch 90 - year - old judges, who have been replaced by a tame political supreme court).

In the race for Mount Vernon City Court Judge, Nichelle Johnson defeated challenger Tamika A. Coverdale, Esq., in a Democratic primary by 1,758 votes to retain the seat she was appointed to in April to fill the unexpired term of the Honorable Helen Blackwood, who was elected to Westchester County Court Judge.

Judge Nichelle A. Johnson (7A)-- The Democratic Nominee, Johnson was appointed City Court Judge by Mount Vernon Mayor, Richard W Thomas on April 5th to fill the unexpired term of the Honorable Helen Blackwood, who was elected to Westchester County Court Judge.

Civil Court judges are elected and undergo a primary, but if the primary winner should drop out of the race, the County Committee must convene a special Screening Panel which suggests at least three qualified candidates for each vacancy.

Espaillat told a story of how Wright's father, Judge Bruce M. Wright, who served on the state Supreme Court, swore him in when he was first elected to the state Assembly in 1996.

Judge Sedita went on to establish a private, general law practice downtown until his older brother was elected mayor of Buffalo and appointed him as a City Court judge in the late 1Judge Sedita went on to establish a private, general law practice downtown until his older brother was elected mayor of Buffalo and appointed him as a City Court judge in the late 1judge in the late 1950s.

President - Elect Donald Trump's pro-life platform against abortion, along with his support for traditional family values, marriage as stated in the Bible as one man and one woman instead of same - sex marriage, in favor of prayer and the reading of sacred scripture in our public schools, and his promise to appoint conservative judges to the United States Supreme Court made Evangelicals and even Democrats who espouse those positions to support Donald Trump.

The National Association of School Boards, representing public officials elected to Nevada's school boards, filed a «friend of the court» brief before Judge Wilson supporting the parent who brought the lawsuit against SB302 vouchers, because of the great harm that these vouchers would inflict on public school education.

A Wake County Superior Court three judge panel justly pronounced in July that the State Board of Education (SBE), a body of part - time volunteer appointees, is subservient on policy matters to the people's elected General -LSB-...]

The final Manitoba appointment is Shane I. Perlmutter, who joins the Court of Queen's Bench to replace Justice M. Kaufman, who elected to become a supernumerary judge.

Christopher Bondy, of Windsor, is the second new appointment to the Ontario Superior Court, replacing Justice Denis J. Power of Ottawa, who elected to become a supernumerary judge and whose position was transferred to Windsor.

The Court also rejected the trial Judge's finding that the law was sound because the mandatory minimum sentence only applied where the Crown elected to proceed by indictment and that the «reasonable exercise of Crown discretion would result in summary proceedings».

Among the great things that happened on November 4, voters ousted anti-consumer judges in major upsets by electing two chief justices and two supreme court incumbents, and re-electing the West Virginia attorney general, who has been relentlessly targeted by «tort reform» groups and attacked during the campaign by U.S. Chamber of Commerce - supported ads, which were produced by the same nice folks who brought you the famous «swift boat» spots.

Vernon lawyer Gary Weatherill becomes a judge of Supreme Court of British Columbia in Vancouver, replacing Justice Mary Humphries, who elected to become a supernumerary judge in September.

Peter A. Douglas, a lawyer with Stewart Esten in Barrie, is appointed to the Superior Court bench in Barrie to replace Justice Margaret Eberhard, who elected to become a supernumerary judge as of July.

The Legislature shall have the authority to stagger the terms of the Judges of the Supreme Court elected in 2014.

Most state court judges, at all three levels, are elected by the population for certain terms of service.

However, there is a category of hybrid offences where, even when the Crown elects to proceed by indictment, the accused will have no choice as to mode of trial, but must be tried by a Provincial Court judge.

Notwithstanding Article VI, Section 4, Judges of any intermediate appellate court shall be nominated, appointed and elected in the same manner as judges of the Supreme Judges of any intermediate appellate court shall be nominated, appointed and elected in the same manner as judges of the Supreme Ccourt shall be nominated, appointed and elected in the same manner as judges of the Supreme judges of the Supreme CourtCourt.

Kaye E. Dunlop, a sole practitioner in Winnipeg, is appointed to the Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench, Family Court Division, to replace Justice Laurie P. Allen, who elected to become a supernumerary judge as of April 13, 2015.

Associate Chief Judge of the Provincial Court of Manitoba Janice leMaistre has been appointed to the Court of Appeal of Manitoba to replace Justice Freda M. Steel, who elected to become a supernumerary judge as of May 1, Judge of the Provincial Court of Manitoba Janice leMaistre has been appointed to the Court of Appeal of Manitoba to replace Justice Freda M. Steel, who elected to become a supernumerary judge as of May 1, judge as of May 1, 2014.

Silvana Conte, a lawyer with Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP in Montreal, was appointed to the Superior Court to replace Justice Jean - Pierre Chrétien, who elected to become a supernumerary judge as of July 5, 2015.

Note the audience was made up primarily of judges, both elected and appointed, at various court levels.

Guy R. Smith, a sole practitioner in Ottawa, was appointed a judge of the Tax Court of Canada to replace Justice Joe E. Hershfield, who elected to become a supernumerary judge as of June 1, 2015.

Where the issues before the court are between citizens this may not matter; but where the issues are between the citizen and departments of state or citizens and local authorities — immigration, social security, planning permission — there must surely be some concern that the judge will not want to let down the political party which got him, or her, elected and whose support may be needed for re-election and promotion.

Anne Jacob, a lawyer with AJ services juridiques inc. in Saint - Lambert, joins the Superior Court in the District of Longueuil to replace Justice Carole Julien, who elected to become a supernumerary judge as of July 20, 2015.

Jocelyn F. Rancourt, a lawyer with Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP in Québec, also joins the Superior Court, replacing Justice Michel Caron, who elected to become a supernumerary judge as of June 20.

In addition to the institutional or parliamentary purists and those who feared the sort of innovation associated with the American Supreme Court, there were still other premiers who simply felt that duly elected legislatures were better positioned than appointed judges when it came to the matter of protecting individual and community rights.

alum Andreas Paulus has just been elected as Judge of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany, the Bundesverfassungsgericht.

This situation is more common in courts of appeals, but it also occurs at the trial court level when a local attorney is elected or appointed to serve as a judge.

In a recent Politico piece, the former chief justice of Alabama's supreme court offered a firsthand perspective on the relationship between electing judges and maintaining impartial courts and judges, and other judges have shared similar sentiments.

Judge: A public official, appointed or elected, authorized to hear and often to decide cases brought before a court of law.

On Wednesday Koen Lenaerts was elected President of the European Court of Justice by the Judges of the Court for the term of three years.

The Supreme Court upheld the House's decision in Powell v. McCormack, holding that Article I, Section 5 of the Constitution gives each house of Congress the power to judge whether an elected member has met the qualifications for office set forth in Article I, Section 2 of the Constitution.

Robert Stanley Weir (1856 - 1926)[Weir was born in Hamilton, educated in Montreal (qualifying in both law and teaching), and became a judge Recorder of the City of Montréal and later served on the Exchequer Court of Canada (now the Federal Court of Canada); served as a member of the Quebec Legislative Assembly; elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society)[Robert Stanley Weir]

SOUTHFIELD, Mich., - Brooks Kushman Shareholder William Abbatt was recently elected president of the Michigan Intellectual Property Inn of Court, a philanthropic organization of judges, attorneys, legal educators and law students created to promote excellency in advocacy.

In 2018, Ohio voters will elect judges to the Supreme Court of Ohio and all 12 districts of the Court of Appeals, as well as most courts of common pleas and county courts.