Sentences with phrase «federal appeals court judge»

Federal appeals court judges don't seem eager to embrace the arguments of lawyers seeking a new trial for Republican former New York Senate leader Dean Skelos.

A friend of federal appeals court Judge Merrick Garland, someone recommended by several senators, also said Tuesday that Garland is happy in his job and has no interest in leaving the judiciary to head the FBI.

The short list includes federal appeals court judges Sri Srinivasan and Merrick Garland.

The 60 - year - old federal appeals court judge, widely expected to win Senate confirmation to the High Court as early as this week, said she would not rush to replace the Court's test for determining an unconstitutional government establishment of religion «unless I am sure I have a better building to replace what's being torn down.»

Federal appeals court judges seemed skeptical of President Donald Trump's executive order restricting travel, during courtroom arguments Monday.

Federal appeals court judges weighed whether they should consider Trump's previous statements supporting a complete ban on Muslims entering the country when ruling on his revised order to suspend travel from six Muslim - majority countries.

(CNN)- With President Obama's nomination of federal appeals court judge Sonia Sotomayor to sit on the Supreme Court, both Democrats and Republicans see an opportunity to rally their respective bases.

January 31, 2017 • The choice of the 49 - year - old Denver federal appeals court judge fulfills an early campaign promise by Trump to nominate a solid conservative with a record of strictly interpreting the Constitution.

Federal appeals court judges recently heard a challenge to the Obama EPA's approval of E15, a blend of 85 percent gasoline and 15 percent ethanol, to be -LSB-...]

It's too early to know yet whether the Americans under investigation — who also include Federal Appeals Court Judge Jay Bybee, University of California law professor John Yoo, Chevron lawyer William J. Haynes II, Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff David Addington, and former Undersecretary of Defense Douglas J. Feith — have canceled vacation plans for Ibiza, and it's hard to say whether the case has affected them yet, at least a little bit.

Federal appeals court judges gave no indication today that they see any significant legal obstacles to the Fish and Wildlife Service's decision to list the polar bear as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

Federal appeals court judges do not seem eager to embrace the arguments of lawyers seeking a new trial for former New York Senate leader Dean Skelos and his son.

A federal appeals court judge will join the seminar as guest lecturer one afternoon.

Schneiderman said the federal appeals court judges do have the power to ultimately order that the subsidies have to be paid.

In March of 1995, a federal appeals court judge, citing the school board's mismanagement and fiscal irresponsibility, turned control of the city's schools over to the state.

She has volunteered as a teacher at the Prison University Project and clerked for a federal appeals court judge in the Ninth Circuit.

Things just got a lot more interesting, now that President George W. Bush has nominated John Roberts — a federal appeals court judge, a New York native and a Harvard Law School graduate — to succeed the seat that will be vacated by the first woman on the United States Supreme Court, Sandra Day O'Connor.

There is no shortage of settings in which the retirement question is being watched with keen interest — the White House, Senate and the chambers of the federal appeals court judges who make up most spots on the official and unofficial short lists for filling a high court vacancy.

It's made a federal appeals court judge mad enough to quit the bench.

«James L. Oakes, Federal Appeals Court Judge, Dies at 83»: Adam Liptak will have this obituary Tuesday in The New York Times.