Sentences with phrase «federal appeals judges»

There are two other federal appeals judges on the new list; both were nominated to their appellate positions in May.

Shortly after three federal appeals judges upheld a block of Donald Trump's travel ban for seven Muslim majority countries, POTUS fired back.

Stanford University Law School professor Michael McConnell, a former federal appeals judge, said the court should not consider campaign statements, because Trump only swore an oath to uphold the Constitution after he became president.

President Obama has nominated Sonia Sotomayor, a Bronx - born federal appeals judge, to the Supreme Court.

As Chertoff, who after all was recently a federal appeals judge, knows quite well, no one should expect privacy in a restaurant or anywhere else where a fingerprint might be left.

A decades - long case involving an Iranian dairy may finally be drawing to a close, with a federal appeals judge in Washington ruling Tuesday that Iran's government expropriated an American corporation's interest in the project and withheld dividends following the country's 1979 revolution.

Not exact matches

On Thursday, the Ninth Circuit denied the government's emergency appeal to lift the Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) on Trump's immigration order issued last week by a federal judge in Seattle, indicating in its opinion that Trump's past comments about a «Muslim ban» can be used as evidence for discrimination.

A three - judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is scheduled to hear arguments Monday from lawyers for Bayou Bridge Pipeline LLC, federal regulators and...

Separately on Tuesday, a judge for the U.S. Federal Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, ruled narrowly in favor of the subsidies in a case called David King.

A defiant Donald Trump has pledged to appeal against a federal judge's order placing an immediate halt on his revised travel ban, describing the ruling as judicial overreach that made the United States look weak.

Similar kinds of cases are under way in other parts of the country, including a case on appeal in Chicago after a federal judge issued a nationwide injunction barring the government from blocking grant money typically used to help local police combat violent crime and help victims.

The Justice Department urged the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond to lift a stay imposed by a Maryland federal judge March 16th blocking the administration from carrying out the executive order.

A majority of the judges on a federal appeals court seemed skeptical of the government's defense for President Donald Trump's executive order restricting travel, during courtroom arguments Monday.

Judge Andreas Korbmacher said on Thursday the country's highest federal administrative court would rule on Feb. 27 on an appeal brought by German states against bans imposed by local courts in Stuttgart and Duesseldorf over poor air quality.

The federal appeals court in New York ruled that Aereo did not violate the copyrights of broadcasters with its service, but a similar service has been blocked by judges in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.

The focus of their appeal will be a Federal Court judge's ruling that vacated the court order about two weeks after the raid on Lackman's home.

Heather Dietrick, president and general counsel of Gawker Media, said in a statement that soon after Mr. Bollea sued the company in 2012, three state appeals court judges and a federal judge «repeatedly ruled that Gawker's post was newsworthy» under the First Amendment.

The Supreme Court declined to hear the Trump administration's appeal of a federal judge's ruling ordering the government to allow DACA recipients to renew their protected status.

Judge Easterbrook, of the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, wrote a great article about the internet back in the 90s called «Cyberspace and the Law of the Horse.»

A federal judge and an appeals court had rejected the combination after antitrust regulators sued to stop it.

Insurance behemoth, Anthem lost their appeal of the February decision of a Federal Judge to block their 54 billion - dollar merger with Cigna.

The last - minute rewrite prompted a federal judge in September to dismiss challenges by Wheaton College and Belmont Abbey, but the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed to consider the cases.

An appeals court has upheld a ruling by a federal judge that effectively overturned his conviction in the sexual assault and murder of Teresa Halbach more than 10 years ago.

Religion News Service: Monks» caskets suit heads back to court A group of Catholic monks who sued for the right to sell handmade caskets will head back to court this week, fending off an appeal from the state funeral industry after a federal judge last year struck down a state law that permitted only licensed funeral directors to sell coffins.

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell had imposed a four - game suspension on Brady for his involvement in DeflateGate, but Judge Berman ruled in Brady's favor on appeal to federal court.

(Stanley also filed an $ 8 million sex - discrimination lawsuit against USC and its athletic director, which was dismissed by a federal judge in March 1995 and which Stanley is appealing.)

SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters)- A U.S. appeals court on Friday denied Utah's bid to further block legal recognition of about 1,300 same - sex weddings performed after the state's gay marriage ban was briefly lifted by a federal judge in December.

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.

Like Silver, Skelos is asking a federal judge to allow him to remain free on bail pending an appeal and the Supreme Court's McDonnell decision.

Citing disagreements on the law that have emerged in different federal appeals courts, Silver claims that at trial, U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni applied the wrong standards to money laundering, bribery and extortion charges.

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ALBANY - Former state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver filed notice Wednesday that he will appeal his federal conviction, while a judge ruled he will remain free from prison until at least Aug. 31.

Under federal law, a judge can only allow for bail if there's a real chance for winning an appeal.

The federal judge who ordered changes to the NYPD's stop - and - frisk strategy has declined the Bloomberg administration's request to delay them pending appeal.

Otherwise, «any powerful person who asks someone to do something is committing a federal crime because people are afraid of powerful people and want to curry their favor,» Appeals Court Judge Richard Wesley noted in the Silver hearing.

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

A similar decision earlier this month by a federal judge concerning nuclear subsidies in Illinois was appealed by the non-nuclear generating companies that filed the lawsuit.

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

A three - man panel of the Court of Appeal led by Justice Helen Ogunwumiju, unanimously agreed with the decision of Justice A.M. Liman of the Federal High Court in Enugu that there was no legal basis to grant the prayer sought by the former Chief Judge.

Lehrer noted that, shortly after gaining Gracie Mansion, de Blasio voluntarily dropped Mayor Michael Bloomberg's appeal of a federal judge's 2013 ruling that the NYPD's controversial «stop - and - frisk» policy was unconstitutional.

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.

Today, the U.S. Appeals Court for the Second Circuit denied disgraced former Bronx Assemblyman Eric Stevenson's appeal of his federal trial judge's order seizing his pension contributions assets that can be used to pay his $ 22,000 restitution penalty.

A federal judge in Brooklyn is allowing an appeal related to President Donald Trump's rhetoric against Latinos.

One recipient of PBA campaign money, CM Gibson joined about a half a dozen of her City Council colleagues in ripping police unions in 2014 for appealing a federal judge's ruling that the controversial stop - and - frisk program was unconstitutional.

A federal judge will hear an expedited appeal next week filed by State Senator Jack Martins to move the election to replace Representative Steve Israel in Long Island's 3rd Congressional District to December.

Florida gubernatorial candidates are weighing in on Gov. Rick Scott and his Executive Clemency Board's appeal of a federal judge's ruling.

«McDonnell will not save Silver on appeal, nor should it entitle him to bail pending appeal,» prosecutors told Manhattan federal judge Valerie Caprini.

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 magistrate judge has ruled a criminal complaint against the late Assemblyman Bill Nojay should be released, but the complaint remains sealed pending an appeal.

Judge Jones is admitted to practice in New York State, Federal District Court (E.D.N.Y, S.D.N.Y.), United States Tax Court, Federal Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and the Supreme Court of the United States.