Sentences with phrase «federal court judges who»

Some insight into these two constraints may be gained from observations made by a number of Federal Court judges who have long experience dealing with native title cases.

In preparing this Report, I spoke to Justice Wilcox about his observations as a Federal Court judge who sat on native title cases.

Not exact matches

Granting the CFTC's request for a preliminary injunction against the defendants who allegedly engaged in deception and fraud involving virtual currency spot markets, Judge Weinstein noted that» [u] ntil Congress clarifies the matter,» the CFTC has «concurrent authority» along with other state and federal administrative agencies and civil and criminal courts over transactions in virtual currency.

On March 6, 2018, Judge Jack B. Weinstein of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York ruled that virtual currencies are commodities under the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) and therefore subject to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's (CFTC) anti-fraud and anti-manipulation enforcement authority.1 Granting the CFTC's request for a preliminary injunction against the defendants who allegedly engaged in deception and fraud involving virtual currency spot markets, Judge Weinstein noted that «[u] ntil Congress clarifies the matter,» the CFTC has «concurrent authority» along with other state and federal administrative agencies and civil and criminal courts over transactions in virtual currency.2

That wasn't even Olson's case, but with assists from a federal district court judge who came out as being in a same - sex relationship only after ruling and retiring, and elected officials who chose to forgo their traditional duty to vigorously defend state law, Olson and Boies did succeed in disenfranchising millions of Californians on a procedural technicality.

Los Angeles Times: Rabbi who refused to testify freed after seven months in prison A Brooklyn orthodox rabbi who was jailed after refusing to answer questions before a federal grand jury, saying his religion forbid him from testifying against other Jews, was ordered freed this week by a district court judge in Los Angeles, the rabbi's attorney said.

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.

Like others who support the original understanding of the Constitution, I disagree with many of the Supreme Court's decisions under the establishment clause, but in our system of government a federal - district judge like Judge Jones is bound by those decisjudge like Judge Jones is bound by those decisJudge Jones is bound by those decisions.

Alabama marriage officials find themselves in a very confusing position right now, because a federal court declared the state's marriage ban unconstitutional, but then the Alabama Supreme Court declared that the gay marriage ban was still just great and legal, and now all the probate judges are like, «Wait, who do we listen to?&rcourt declared the state's marriage ban unconstitutional, but then the Alabama Supreme Court declared that the gay marriage ban was still just great and legal, and now all the probate judges are like, «Wait, who do we listen to?&rCourt declared that the gay marriage ban was still just great and legal, and now all the probate judges are like, «Wait, who do we listen to?»

Manhattan federal prosecutors told the judge who sentenced Dean and Adam Skelos last week that the government won't push for them to go to prison until at least three - plus months after the U.S. Supreme Court rules in a pending case on anti-corruption laws.

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.»

Justice John Tsoho of Federal High Court, Abuja who adjourned hearing in the trial of Kanu with his co-defendants in a motion of notice filed on their behalf by Barrister Ifeanyi Ejiofor, asked the Judge to disqualify himself from hearing the case over alllegations of «manifest bias.»

The Joe Percoco corruption trial resumes this afternoon in federal court in Manhattan, with disgraced ex-lobbyist Todd Howe, who has been spending his night in jail since late last week, appearing in a business suit — not prison garb — as per the judge's orders.

Manhattan Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh, who sits on the Assembly's Election Law Committee, said Trump's comments are discouraging in light of the fact that there are federal courts across the country with judges appointed by Republicans and Democrats saying that states» voter laws are unconstitutional because they target people based on their race and ethnicity.

A Manhattan Federal Court judge has ordered the release of prominent immigrant activist Ravi Ragbir, who had been detained by immigration agents...

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.

Seminerio pleaded guilty to services fraud before Federal Court Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald, who set his sentencing -LSB-...]

A Manhattan federal judge said that she will decide whether Ravi Ragbir, the immigrants - rights activist who was detained last week — sparking a protest and nearly 20 arrests — should be brought back to New York from Miami while he fights deportation in court.

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.

Federal prosecutors have asked a district court judge for an anonymous and partially sequestered jury in the trial of man who allegedly has extensive contacts among ranking al Qaeda members and participated in a 2003 ambush that killed two American soldiers and wounded several others.

Although, the court clerks declined comments, it was learnt that the Judge was part of the Federal Capital Territory Judiciary delegation attending the burial ceremony of Justice Victoria Ayodele Uzo - Amaka Onejeme, a pioneer Judge of the Abuja High court who died recently.

Again, A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr. Joe Agi, who is being prosecuted along with Justice Ademola of a Federal High Court, had told the Department of the State Service that Buhari's lawyer paid N500, 000 to Justice Ademola in 2015 at the time the judge was presiding over Buhari's certificate case.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has slammed 14 charges against a Federal High Court judge, Hyeladzira Nganjiwa, who was cleared and reinstated by the National Judicial Council last week.

SILVER was sentenced in Manhattan federal court by U.S. District Judge Valerie E. Caproni who also presided over the five - week jury trial.

The panel will consider a request by Judge Dora Irazarry, a federal district court judge in Brooklyn, who is hearing a lawsuit against the lines brought by civil rights grJudge Dora Irazarry, a federal district court judge in Brooklyn, who is hearing a lawsuit against the lines brought by civil rights grjudge in Brooklyn, who is hearing a lawsuit against the lines brought by civil rights groups.

Judge Crotty indicated that although he was obliged to follow the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in McCutcheon v. FEC, which recently invalidated federal aggregate contribution limits, he disagreed with the court's analysis and lamented that regular citizens «are too often drowned out by the few who have great resources.&rCourt's decision in McCutcheon v. FEC, which recently invalidated federal aggregate contribution limits, he disagreed with the court's analysis and lamented that regular citizens «are too often drowned out by the few who have great resources.&rcourt's analysis and lamented that regular citizens «are too often drowned out by the few who have great resources.»

A candidate for Brooklyn civil court judge, John O'Hara, is filing a federal malicious prosecution lawsuit against ex-DA Charles Hynes, who he says used staffers and politicians to wrongfully prosecute him for voter fraud.

It's known as Dillon's Rule and is named after John Forrest Dillon, who was appointed a Federal Circuit Court of Appeals Judge by President Ulysses S. Grant in 1869.

Kahn, a former state Supreme Court justice who was appointed a federal judge in 1996, recently instructed both sides to stop filing legal arguments, saying he has enough information to decide the key pre-trial issues on injury and diminution of property values.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is set to charge suspended Federal High Court judge, Justice Mohammed Yunusa, who the National Judicial Commission recently recommended for retirement.

Seminerio pleaded guilty to services fraud before Federal Court Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald, who set his sentencing for Oct. 20, a spokeswoman for U.S. Attorney Lev Dassin said.

Manhattan federal court Judge John Sprizzo ranted in court yesterday at a lawyer who'd...

Ry - Ann Hermon, who served as Boyland's chief of staff and was also romantically involved with the pol, is asking Judge Sandra Townes for no jail time ahead of sentencing in Brooklyn federal court Friday.

The 11 - page ruling, by Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein of Federal District Court in Manhattan, found that the city had overstepped its bounds in requiring, as part of a licensing process, that carwash owners buy a special bond within a two - tiered system: $ 30,000 for those whose workers were unionized or employers who agreed to monitoring, and $ 150,000 for all others.

U.S. District Judge Kenneth Karas imposed the sentence in White Plains Federal Court on the once - powerful Queens pol, who was stone - faced throughout the proceeding.

If there wasn't enough going on regarding redistricting this week the whole sordid affair got a kick in the pants thanks to U.S. District Court Judge Gary Sharpe who has ruled that unless that state takes legislative action all of New York's future federal non-presidential primaries will be held on the fourth Tuesday of June.

«It is very appalling that a well - trained judge who passed through so many seminars before being elevated to the position of a Chief Judge in a Federal High court can allowed herself and the court to be used to bar Mazi Nnamdi Kanu from exercising his fundamental human rights&rajudge who passed through so many seminars before being elevated to the position of a Chief Judge in a Federal High court can allowed herself and the court to be used to bar Mazi Nnamdi Kanu from exercising his fundamental human rights&raJudge in a Federal High court can allowed herself and the court to be used to bar Mazi Nnamdi Kanu from exercising his fundamental human rights».

The case went back to Judge Haik, who once again ruled in favor of the mining groups, holding the federal government in contempt of court and reaffirming that the DEMS scientists must turn over all data and drafts of any papers they plan to publish.

Now a three - judge federal appeals court panel has ruled in favor of the scientists, who will finally be free to examine the remains thoroughly.

Both a federal district judge and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit had ruled in favor of a student who had challenged the display of Warner Sallman's «Head of Christ» at Bloomingdale...

As many of you know by now, Jones, a former U.S. Attorney and scion of a political family that includes famed judge and U.S. Senator Howell Heflin, won what was previously considered an unlikely victory over Moore, a jurist who was twice removed from his role as chief justice of the Iron State's supreme court for willfully ignoring failing to enforce federal rulings.

He was once known as Michael Vicks» «grand champion fighting dog,» and because of the notoriety this brought him in the eyes of the federal court, the judge who adjudicated his case ruled that he could never be adopted, but must live out the rest of his life at Best Friends.

The judge, Paul G. Gardephe, who said on several occasions that his preference was to meet on federal holidays and who never let court out before 5 p.m., was having none of this.

March 16, 2018: Federal judge rules some of the cases should be tried in state court, creating a conflict with another judge who ruled similar cases belong in federalFederal judge rules some of the cases should be tried in state court, creating a conflict with another judge who ruled similar cases belong in federalfederal court.

Those of us who practice within the federal courts» first judicial circuit have long had a crapulous craving for the tenebrous pearls of linguistic perlustration emanating over the years from the opinions of now - senior 1st Circuit Judge Bruce M. Selya.

The implementation of a new rule prohibiting federal funds for nursing homes that enter binding arbitration agreements with residents has been blocked by a U.S. district court judge, who found...

«A lot of what the Supreme Court does is simply irrelevant to what federal trial judges do on a daily basis,» wrote Judge Kopf, who presides and blogs from Lincoln, Neb..

The defendant appealed, first to a judge of the Federal Court, who had upheld the prothonotary's decision.

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.