Sentences with phrase «federal appellate judges who»

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

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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.
In the U.S. Federal appellate courts, and maybe all of the state appellate courts, they have a procedure (as I understand it) by which a judge of the appellate court who wasn't on the hearing panel can request the full court reconsider the decision.
Previously, the report concluded that two key authors — Jay Bybee, now a federal appellate court judge, and John Yoo, now a law professor — violated their professional obligations as lawyers when they crafted a crucial 2002 memo approving the use of harsh tactics, say two Justice sources who asked for anonymity discussing an internal matter.
«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.
For anyone who practices regularly in federal appeals — especially the many appellate practitioners who did not clerk for federal appellate judges themselves — this article sheds very useful light on how cases get decided.
And how do you respond to those who say that the best way to remedy the problems associated with the Ninth Circuit's large size is to reorder the size and composition of all the federal appellate courts, a remedy that would increase the number of judges serving on, and the geographical boundaries of, the First Circuit?
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