Sentences with phrase «federal court judges make»

The legal research service Ravel Law, which last year launched Judge Analytics to provide analysis of how individual federal court judges make decisions, today is launching Court Analytics, a similar feature that applies analytics to an entire court, including all its cases and judges.

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In a court ruling authorizing the arrests, Brazilian federal judge André Duszczak said «Faria and other BRF officers sought to cover up claims of possible food contamination, as shown in certain laboratory tests, made by a former employee in a labor lawsuit.»

The outcome of that $ 85 billion merger - in - the - making depends on a case in federal court, which is pending the decision of the judge.

The judge, who noted that the Coroner Law was an enactment of the Lagos State House of Assembly, which is constitutionally empowered to make laws in the state, said «the Federal High Court could not dabble into the affairs of the state and start dishing out injunctive orders.»

The decision came the same day a federal judge made public an order that Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal maintain Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood centers for 14 more days while the court considers plans to cut it off permanently.

The court also directed the publication of the interim orders in any national newspaper for anyone who is interested in the cash sums and the properties to appear before the judge to show cause within 14 days why the final order of forfeiture of the properties should not be made in favour of the Federal Government of Nigeria.

Granholm did not hold back, however, about whether Obama should be looking at candidates who are not currently sitting federal judges — a suggestion made often by Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, D - Vermont, whose committee holds hearings on Supreme Court nominees.

The announcement was made in court papers filed recently, as part of the ongoing remedy process stemming from the federal class action lawsuit, Floyd vs. City of New York, in which a judge ruled the police unfairly targeted people of color for stops.

He said the judge might have treated the instructions to the jury differently, and prosecutors «would have been even more careful» about making sure their summation and rebuttal arguments «completely conformed» with the court's new interpretation of the federal theft of honest services law.

A court clerk has filed a federal suit that charges former top Staten Island Administrative Judge Judith McMahon «conspired» with her husband, the borough's district attorney, to judge shop on narcotics cases to make sure prosecutors got a sympathetic juJudge Judith McMahon «conspired» with her husband, the borough's district attorney, to judge shop on narcotics cases to make sure prosecutors got a sympathetic jujudge shop on narcotics cases to make sure prosecutors got a sympathetic jurist.

But in a brief filed this week in federal court, lawyers for the Justice Department tell U.S. District Court Judge Gary Sharpe that if he does set a primary for New York, that he make the date earlier than Augcourt, lawyers for the Justice Department tell U.S. District Court Judge Gary Sharpe that if he does set a primary for New York, that he make the date earlier than AugCourt Judge Gary Sharpe that if he does set a primary for New York, that he make the date earlier than Aug. 18.

A decision made by a judge in a trial in a federal district court isn't binding on anyone, not even that judge.

At the hearing in the matter, Friday, MTN's counsel, Chief Wole Olanipekun, SAN, led a team of MTN lawyers made up of 10 senior advocates, told the presiding judge, Mohammed Idris, on Friday at the federal high court, Ikoyi, Lagos, that MTN has opted to settle out of court.

On Wednesday, outside the presence of the jury, the judge, Valerie E. Caproni of Federal District Court in Manhattan, made a similar observation.

Joiner has likely made this task more difficult by instructing trial judges that neither Daubert nor the Federal Rules of Evidence «requires a district court to admit opinion evidence which is connected to existing data only by the ipse dixit of the expert.

The Executive Branch (President) checks on Congress; proposes legislation; vetoes legislation; makes treaties; checks on the judiciary; appoints federal judges; enforces court decisions.

This follows an order from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit which allowed Judge Koh to make the decision.

If the judge rules in our favor, we will be able to make our case before the court that the federal government must put a nation - wide climate recovery plan in place.

Eventually finding a Federal Judge to make a ruling to pass onto the Supreme Court.

In its decision, the Ontario Court of Appeal noted the trial judge «made many errors» stating the original interpretation did not take into consideration that a two - step process involving consultation by both the province and the federal government is unnecessary, as the treaty right is protected.

Constitutional or not, it's fairly incredible that these state judges are making $ 235,000 per year when federal district court judges make only $ 174,000.

Women also make up around one - third of active Circuit Court of Appeals judges and a quarter of Federal Court judges.

Several changes are being made to the role of the prothonotaries as well new appointments for judges in the Federal Court.

Much is made of the fact that Sonia Sotomayor was a federal district judge before she was named to the federal appeals court.

In the Federal Court system, prothonotaries — full judicial officers who exercise many of the powers and functions of judges — are employed, at a pay rate of about 70 per cent of what superior court judges Court system, prothonotaries — full judicial officers who exercise many of the powers and functions of judges — are employed, at a pay rate of about 70 per cent of what superior court judges court judges make.

«I am pleased to announce the nomination of Mr. Justice Nadon, whose extraordinary body of legal work — as a longtime judge on both the Federal Court and the Federal Court of Appeal; judicial member of the Competition Tribunal; expert in maritime and transportation law with almost 20 years as a practicing member of the Barreau du Québec; arbitrator; teacher; and author — makes him an ideal candidate for the Supreme Court of Canada.»

The promise doctrine was developed through the Federal Courts» jurisprudence; under it, a judge reviewed a patent as a whole to identify any «promises» made in it, then assessed whether those promises had been met in order to satisfy the utility requirement of the patent under the Patent Act.

A year after the decision in Richard, an Ontario Superior Court judge was asked to determine this issue in the context of an action brought by the federal commissioner of competition over claims made by wireless providers about the number of dropped calls.

In dismissing Nicholson's request for removal, Federal Court Prothonotary Mireille Tabib wrote: «Parliament has indeed empowered the CJC to investigate complaints and allegations made against judges, including those sufficiently serious to warrant their removal.

Qualcomm makes some public interest arguments about the importance of protecting intellectual property, but it probably knows that it's preaching to the converted when telling the Federal Circuit about the importance of IP to innovation, and focuses on making an argument that characterizes Judge Posner's decision to deny injunctive relief as inconsistent with Supreme Court and Federal Circuit precedent.

All appointments of federal judges and provincial supreme court judges in Canada are made by the Federal Cfederal judges and provincial supreme court judges in Canada are made by the Federal CFederal Cabinet.

German judges of the Federal Constitutional Court, the highest court in the land, wear solid red robes, said to be based on the costumes worn by 15th Century Italian judges (as made famous in the paintings of Piero della FranceCourt, the highest court in the land, wear solid red robes, said to be based on the costumes worn by 15th Century Italian judges (as made famous in the paintings of Piero della Francecourt in the land, wear solid red robes, said to be based on the costumes worn by 15th Century Italian judges (as made famous in the paintings of Piero della Francesca).

Courts in California and at the federal level since have made Guglielmi a legal standard, citing it multiple times, including, the appellate judges noted, for: Comedy III, supra, 25 Cal.4 th at pp. 396 - 398, 401 - 402, 406; Winter v. DC Comics (2003) 30 Cal.4 th 881, 887 - 888, 891 (Winter); Tamkin v. CBS Broadcasting, Inc. (2011) 193 Cal.App.4 th 133, 145 (Tamkin); Dyer v. Childress (2007) 147 Cal.App.4 th 1273, 1280; Polydoros v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. (1997) 67 Cal.App.4 th 318, 324 - 325 (Polydoros)[and] Sarver v. Chartier (9th Cir.

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

After Judge Koh's court in San Jose in the Northern District of California, this makes the Southern German city, which is also the seat of the European Patent Office and the German Federal Patent Court, the toughest terrain for Android worldcourt in San Jose in the Northern District of California, this makes the Southern German city, which is also the seat of the European Patent Office and the German Federal Patent Court, the toughest terrain for Android worldCourt, the toughest terrain for Android worldwide.

Did the class action in federal court somehow make the county judge decide to issue a ruling that he otherwise would not have had a reason to issue?

We add our voices to those of others who have called on the federal Minister of Justice to make it a priority to fill the vacancies in Alberta superior courts and to provide a proper complement of judges in Alberta, before matters get any worse.

These rules will likely go into effect in December of 2015, but many federal judges already have created or are making local court rules that effectively require faster and more proportionate discovery.

«Given that approximately fifty percent of the filings in this district last year were made by pro se litigants, the court has found it necessary to join the other district courts around the country that have instituted mandatory pro bono appointment programs,» Southern District Chief Judge Richard Young wrote in a letter to the federal district bar.

Straughn's unusual case was made possible by a series of federal and state court decisions that overturned the rules judges use when sentencing criminals.

On Thursday night, DOJ, in a pending labor dispute in a federal appeals court in Philadelphia, offered a glimpse of legal arguments the government could make in asking the full D.C. Circuit to overturn the three - judge panel decision in Noel Canning v. NLRB.

When the person goes to seek a remedy, can they make their initial pleading in a Federal district court, or will the judge of the district court require that the complaint be made first in the state where the alleged violation occurred?

In contrast, reflecting the highly decentralized administrative structure of the federal courts, the act's directive that all federal court opinions be made accessible online was directed at the chief judge or justice of each and every court in the federal system.

While this is good news for folks like me who view the proper judicial role as weak, one wonders why federal district judges, unlike say Supreme Court Justices, tend not to be ideological in their decision - making.

«I am pleased to announce the nomination of Mr. Justice Nadon, whose extraordinary body of legal work — as a longtime judge on both the Federal Court and the Federal Court of Appeal; judicial member of the Competition Tribunal; expert in maritime and transportation law with almost 20 years as a practicing member of the Barreau du Québec; arbitrator; teacher; and author — makes him an ideal candidate for the Supreme Court of Canada,» said Prime Minister Harper.

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I suspect it'll help reading the two papers together, and Canadian lawyers should keep in mind that US federal court trial judges, generally, do not have the obligation to write opinions adequately explaining every decision they make, even if adequate is only two lines.

The «Truth in Sentencing Act» is legislation that was intended to provide an excuse for provincial and federal governments» not making any increased expenditure of money to increase the number of provincial and federal prosecutors, or to improve jail conditions, and an excuse for governments not to have to appoint and pay for more judges to make more courts available.

The panel's decision disregards long - standing Supreme Court and Federal Circuit law that makes it the judge's role to construe patents.

The US District Judge explained in a statement that the court's constricted summons support the IRS in a legitimate investigation scrutinizing Coinbase account holders, who may have refrained from their federal tax duty on profits made via the virtual currency exchange.