Sentences with phrase «federal district court judge»

Unfortunately, in many circuits, federal district court judges do not know how, or even if, their work will be reviewed by appellate courts in the context of criminal sentencing decisions.

The suit, one of four brought against Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson after the firm laid off scores of staffers in 2008, failed to establish any proof that the plaintiff had suffered discrimination based on her age, gender, or disability, a Manhattan federal district court judge ruled late last week.

After graduating, Nicole clerked for two years for federal District Court Judge John F. Keenan in the Southern District of New York, before moving on to the law firm Sullivan & Cromwell, LLP.

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.

Last February, the arbitrators preliminarily ordered the Republic of Ecuador to take all possible steps to halt enforcement of the $ 18 billion judgment — the morning after Manhattan federal district court judge Lewis Kaplan preliminarily enjoined the Ecuadorian plaintiffs from pursuing enforcement.

At Hercules and the Umpire, retired federal district court judge Richard Kopf says «I hope that happens, and very soon.»

The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved the nomination to the federal appellate bench of federal district court judge Ralph Erickson by a vote of 20 - 0.

While at Mudge Rose, Patrick assisted partner and former Federal District Court Judge Kenneth Conboy in his capacity as the Election Appeals Master for the 1996 Teamster's national elections.

The evidence involving the clinic was not originally included in the indictment against Silver, but prosecutors have now received permission from Federal District Court Judge Valerie E. Caproni to include it in the trial.

Prior to becoming an attorney, Mr. Artusa worked on Wall Street and then worked under Federal District Court Judge Dickinson Debevoise handling complex multi-state civil litigation.

Prior to becoming an attorney, Mr. Artusa worked on Wall Street and then worked under Federal District Court Judge Dickinson Debevoise handling complex multi-state civil litigation.

On Tuesday, Federal District Court Judge Kenneth M. Karas declared a mistrial in the corruption case involving New York State Senator Malcolm Smith and former Vice Chairman of the Queens County Republican Committee Vincent Tabone.

At the Tuesday afternoon sentencing of Mr. Silver, Federal District Court Judge Valerie Caproni referred to his age of 72 as why she wouldn't go by the recommended sentence of roughly 22 to 27 years.

Federal District Court Judge James E. Gritzner, in a 38 - page opinion, on Feb. 27 denied the crux of a motion to dismiss... Continue Reading

UPDATE: Late Friday, Albany federal district court Judge Gary Sharpe ruled that NY's congressional primary elections be moved to June 26.

On the day before school was to open that year, federal district court judge Solomon Oliver struck down the program, ruling that the use of tax dollars to pay for children to attend religious schools offends the First Amendment's Establishment Clause.

In October 2017, federal district court judge A. Richard Caputo rejected the school district's defense.

In the mid 1980s, federal district court judge Russell Clark ordered a complete overhaul of the school district.

Original report: Jodell Martinelli, Stephanie Booth, Melia Perry, Abbigail King, Nicole Kersanty, and Ruth Ross are the named plaintiffs who hope to convince Arizona federal District Court Judge David G. Campbell that their case should be a class action.

In court, the White House contended that a series of more than 20 studies requested by Mr. Bush in 2003 satisfied the 1990 law, but Federal District Court Judge Saundra Armstrong rejected that assertion and said a comprehensive assessment had to be published by the end of May.

Last week, federal district court judge Ann Aiken in Oregon ruled against the federal government's motion to dismiss, an important hurdle to clear for the lawsuit to move forward.

In October 2007, federal district court Judge Robert Chambers ruled in favor of Gunnoe and OVEC and issued an injunction, ordering Jupiter Holdings to halt the construction of any new valley fills at its Boone County mine.

Unlike federal district court judges, federal magistrates don't have lifetime tenure.

One of our partners, a former chief federal district court judge and principal author of The Manual on Complex Litigation, Second, was a pioneer of technology in the courtroom and the use of computers to manage discovery in vast litigation.

There excellent federal district court judges that could fit the bill: Lynn Adelman, Nancy Gertner, Robert Pratt.

Prior to BayLegal, Sacha did worker's rights and civil rights litigation for seven years at Lewis, Feinberg, Lee, Renaker & Jackson, P.C. in Oakland and clerked for Federal District Court Judge Martin J. Jenkins.

Rather than letting the lawsuits before the judge become more examples of what federal district court Judge Otis D. Wright has called «essentially an extortion scheme,» Judge Baylson has decided to move forward with a «bellwether trial» to determine the validity of Malibu's claims.

Former federal District Court judge Nancy Gertner submitted a column in a recent edition of Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly (subscription required) about the current #MeToo movement.

In October and December Goodwin litigators won favorable rulings for Countrywide that denied class certification in multidistrict litigation pending before a San Diego federal district court judge.

As cited in that piece, US Federal District Court Judge Paul Grimm says «It is a near certainty that the public appetite for use of social media sites is unlikely to abate, and it is essential for courts and lawyers to do a better job in offering and admitting this evidence.»

Specifically, in National Association of Wheat Growers et al. v. Zeise (Monsanto Case), a California federal district court judge preliminarily enjoined application against Monsanto of a labeling requirement imposed by a California regulatory law, Proposition 65.

... federal district court judge on Wednesday ordered Samsung to produce more evidence in a case that could result in it being penalized for exposing Apple's trade secrets.

By Laura Lefkowits In 1995, Federal District Court Judge Richard Matsch terminated the decades - old desegregation order for Denver Public Schools claiming that the district had «removed the vestiges of past discrimination to the extent practicable.»

An informal Senate agreement on the rules of filibusters has the potential to accelerate confirmations of federal district court judges.

A federal district court judge has found that claims against Intel Corporation's Investment Policy Committee for its retirement plans is time - barred under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act's (ERISA)'s three - year statute of limitations.

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.

A federal district court judge has ordered Costco to pay Tiffany more than $ 19 million for selling generic diamond engagement rings that were marketed using Tiffany's name.

But between Aug. 17, when a federal district court judge in Albany revived Pidot's candidacy by ordering the new election, and the appellate court's overruling of the district court two weeks ago, Martins and Pidot raised and spent money.

In an impassioned rebuke of the Trump administration's immigration practices, a Federal District Court judge in Manhattan ordered the immediate release of the immigrant rights activist Ravi Ragbir, calling his abrupt detention on Jan. 11 unconstitutional and cruel.

In the judicial pay commission's first meeting since court administrators urged immediate pay parity between state Supreme Court justices and federal district court judges, some members appeared to latch onto the court proposal.

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 groups.

Green announced today that over the weekend he was informed by Senator Chuck Schumer's office that his confirmation as a federal district court judge had been blocked by Senate Republicans.

But as Retraction Watch reports, a federal district court judge ruled that the court lacked jurisdiction in this case because the plaintiffs haven't yet exhausted the administrative process set up to handle misconduct investigations at federally funded labs.

On July 2, 2003, a federal district court judge in Idaho issued his decision in Natural Resources Defense Council, et.

Justice Powell issued a one - paragraph order that stayed a Jan. 14 decision by Judge W. Brevard Hand — a federal district court judge in Mobile — upholding the state's two school - prayer laws.