Sentences with phrase «federal appellate judge»

So, they did a lot of hard work, and good statistical analysis, regarding the voting patterns of federal appellate judge who had children.

Unless you are a legendary federal appellate judge, you should refrain from doing so.

One study found that women federal appellate judges are significantly more likely than men to rule in favor a party alleging discrimination.

The New York Post has Srinivasan and four other current federal appellate judges on their list, because we all know that pulling from the Circuit Courts of Appeal is the most likely choice here.

As for special obligations arising from being the northernmost federal appellate judge in the United States, I feel a special obligation to release my staff from work and encourage them to walk outside to see the North American Championship dog mushing race that starts right outside my chambers.

President Trump nominated federal appellate judge Neil Gorsuch as his Supreme Court nominee.

If you think that what Judge Kozinski did was bad, I know of federal appellate judges who have publicly admitted to viewing child pornography: Of course, those other judges did that in the context of adjudicating appeals in which a criminal defendant was challenging the sufficiency of the evidence supporting a child pornography conviction.

The White House is vetting Jane L. Kelly, a career public defender turned federal appellate judge, as a potential nominee for the Supreme Court.

Yet federal appellate judges resisted intervention, and instead showed that the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), when followed to the letter, may protect school officials from liability.

In her dissenting opinion, Circuit Judge Dolores K. Sloviter expresses a lament with which numerous federal appellate judges would agree:

Other leaders in the legal community — including the American Bar Association, former federal appellate judge Kenneth W. Starr and former Justice Department lawyer Viet D. Dinh — support the bill.

Federal appellate judge Richard Posner blogged about all this recently.

The majority of federal appellate judges hire clerks in the fall of their 3L year.

President Obama on Tuesday nominated federal appellate Judge Sonia Sotomayor, 54, to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Or perhaps President Obama will wish to listen to Reagan - appointed federal appellate judge Alex Kozinski (9th Cir.)

Bashman suggests that any recusal - induced vacancies be filled by a non-recused federal appellate judge randomly selected to sit by designation.

And there is no question that judges — especially those on the Supreme Court and the various federal appellate judges — matter in the development of law in the United States.

By then, Obama may have appointed a dozen or more additional federal appellate judges, giving them stronger credentials to be elevated to the nation's highest court.

While the author of that article was disturbed by this fact (calling it a «crisis»), I highly doubt that anyone would seriously recommend censuring the majority of federal appellate judges for misconduct.

He should have some insight, considering he's known the federal appellate judge from Denver, CO for decades.

Still, as a federal appellate judge, Gorsuch has issued hundreds of opinions that offer some idea of where he might stand on health and science issues.

A Georgia man has been charged with murder for allegedly mailing package bombs that killed a federal appellate judge in Alabama and a civil - rights lawyer in Georgia and nearly exploded in the office of the Jacksonville, Fla., chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

With Senate hearings on U.S. Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. scheduled to begin Sept. 6, several education groups said last week that they were content to wait on opining about whether the federal appellate judge should become the high court's next associate justice.

Named as the nation's 15th chief justice by President Richard M. Nixon in 1969, Mr. Burger disappointed Mr. Nixon, who admired the judicial conservativism Mr. Burger had espoused as a federal appellate judge.

Therein, I wrote: «In my experience, some federal appellate judges will be more reluctant to recuse where the recusal is triggered by an amicus than if the same grounds for recusal involve a party to the appeal.»

The Economist said it read more like «novice high - school debate speech than a ruling by a federal appellate judge.»

The more that I think about this question, the more I conclude that it is appropriate for a federal appellate judge to be more reluctant to feel an obligation to recuse if the recusal would be based solely on the participation of an amicus or counsel for an amicus.

A federal appellate judge warned Friday that patent reform bills circulating on Capitol Hill threaten to erode the power of the courts to decide how cases are heard.

Apparently, in Rosen's DC - oriented mind, the only viable Democratic SCOTUS nominees are federal appellate judges, big - law lawyers, elite law professors, and «book smart» and «ruthlessly determined» politicians.

After surveying numerous state and federal appellate judges, Judge Aldisert was not able to come to a conclusive magic number for issues.

He has a stellar résumé that includes stints as law clerk to a federal appellate judge, lawyer for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, top Justice Department civil rights lawyer under President Clinton and general counsel of The Coca - Cola Co..

On October 31, 2013 — just days before New York City's mayoral election — three federal appellate judges, José A. Cabranes, John M. Walker, Jr., and Barrington D. Parker, Jr., hastily issued an unusual order staying two major decisions by U.S. District Judge Shira A. Scheindlin, which held that the New York City Police Department's «stop and frisk» practices involved unconstitutional racial profiling.

Earlier this month, a federal appellate judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit retired amid allegations that he engaged in sexual harassment and unwelcome touching over the course of his 32 years on the bench.

I came to the position with experience as a law clerk to a federal appellate judge, thirteen years of practice (including service as a special counsel appointed to prosecute the impeachment of Nebraska's Attorney General), and then five years as a United States Magistrate Judge.

«I can't think of very many people I have met in this profession who are more qualified or more suited to be a federal appellate judge than she is,» Sinclair said.

Nationwide, about a third of federal appellate judges are women.

The ad claimed Alito, as a federal appellate judge, «even voted to approve the strip search of a 10 - year - old girl.»

As you know, that job has since gone to someone whom the U.S. Senate did not get around to confirming as a federal appellate judge.

I would list several things as my most favorite aspects of being a federal appellate judge.

While today you don't have to travel hundreds of miles by dogsled to hear cases as your predecessor judges based in Alaska once did, you probably now have the most grueling commute of any federal appellate judge to arrive at the locations where your court regularly hears oral arguments.