Sentences with phrase «federal district court judges do»

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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.

Here's the trouble: If legislators don't agree on a bill to move their own primary date to correspond with the one that US District Court Judge Gary Sharpe ordered for the federal races, then Assembly members and senators could theoretically challenge sitting House members and then, if that doesn't work out, fall back to run for their own seats.

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.

The judges in the redistricting case, Reena Raggi and Gerard E. Lynch of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Dora L. Irizarry of Federal District Court in Brooklyn, noted that the magistrate judge they assigned to draw the new map managed to do in just two weeks what lawmakers «have been unable, or unwilling, to provide New York State voters in more than a year.»

Valerie E. Caproni, the presiding judge in Federal District Court, kept lawyers and prospective jurors at the courthouse late on Monday in order to ensure that jury selection did not take too long.

That challenge lingered in the court system well after the freeze was lifted in 2007 and was not resolved until 2013 when a federal judge ruled not only was the freeze justified, but that the district did not need to give teachers credit on the pay scale for the years the freeze was enacted.

The judge, Valerie E. Caproni of Federal District Court, did not unseal the materials at the time, but the issue arose again after the trial ended, when the office of Preet Bharara, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, asked to be allowed to use the materials at Mr. Silver's sentencing, which is scheduled for May 3.

The film's ace ensemble casting extends to its smallest roles, including Cuba Gooding Jr. (doing his best work in years) as civil rights attorney Fred Gray and Martin Sheen as federal district court judge Frank M. Johnson.

Update Aug. 9: On August 7, 2009 U.S. District Judge David G. Campbell, sitting in the Arizona federal district court, dismissed without prejudice the plaintiffs» Complaint against Petland and Hunte Corporation. The judge did not allow oral argument. (A copy of the judge's dismissal is attached and can be downloaded at the end of this aDistrict Judge David G. Campbell, sitting in the Arizona federal district court, dismissed without prejudice the plaintiffs» Complaint against Petland and Hunte Corporation. The judge did not allow oral argument. (A copy of the judge's dismissal is attached and can be downloaded at the end of this artiJudge David G. Campbell, sitting in the Arizona federal district court, dismissed without prejudice the plaintiffs» Complaint against Petland and Hunte Corporation. The judge did not allow oral argument. (A copy of the judge's dismissal is attached and can be downloaded at the end of this adistrict court, dismissed without prejudice the plaintiffs» Complaint against Petland and Hunte Corporation. The judge did not allow oral argument. (A copy of the judge's dismissal is attached and can be downloaded at the end of this artijudge did not allow oral argument. (A copy of the judge's dismissal is attached and can be downloaded at the end of this artijudge's dismissal is attached and can be downloaded at the end of this article.)

The court in the Western District of Pennsylvania signed off on a magistrate judge's recommendation and report, in Despot v. Baltimore Life Insurance Co., which noted that the man had a «pattern of filing conclusory complaints against former and prospective employers,» and that because of his history in the federal courts, «his pro se status does not save his complaint.»

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.

Prominently featured in the LTN piece was Senior U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf, who last February launched the blog Hercules and the Umpire and quickly found notoriety when he published a post in which he declared, «A lot of what the Supreme Court does is simply irrelevant to what federal trial judges do on a daily basis.»

However, all circuit judges on the panel agreed that the fee award was justified, given the district judge found Omega was trying to exert unwarranted control over watches where copyright protection did not exist — a rationale allowing for fee shifting by the lower federal court.

«[T] he weight of authority suggests that accurate news reporting — even when it is likely to have an adverse impact on the subjects of the report — usually does not give rise to an action for intentional infliction of emotional distress»: Yesterday, a unanimous three - judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit issued a decision affirming a federal district court's dismissal of claims for invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress asserted by two former undercover police officers against a television station in Albuquerque that had revealed their identities and their undercover status in the context of a televised report about their suspected involvement in an alleged incident of sexual assCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit issued a decision affirming a federal district court's dismissal of claims for invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress asserted by two former undercover police officers against a television station in Albuquerque that had revealed their identities and their undercover status in the context of a televised report about their suspected involvement in an alleged incident of sexual asscourt's dismissal of claims for invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress asserted by two former undercover police officers against a television station in Albuquerque that had revealed their identities and their undercover status in the context of a televised report about their suspected involvement in an alleged incident of sexual assault.

Although it is hard to be certain without more publicly available information, FISC judges likely treat their opinions as non-precedential, as is standard practice for federal district courts.19 The relatively few public FISC opinions do cite earlier FISC opinions and principles of law, 20 but we have seen no clear evidence to suggest that the judges feel formally bound by those earlier opinions in any manner that would set them apart from other Article III district courts.