Sentences with phrase «federal district judge»

Posts describe the challenges facing federal district judges — insufficient funding of the courts chief among them — and share the author's memories from his career as a lawyer and judge.

Intelligent design (ID) has no place in a science classroom, a Pennsylvania federal district judge ruled today.

The settlement, which was revealed by Federal District Judge William Alsup on Feb. 9 after a week of proceedings, requires Uber to pay Waymo an amount of $ 245 million in cash, which is equivalent to a 0.34 percent equity stake in the $ 72 billion valuation of the ride - hailing company.

1)[The recent decisions of federal district judges Nicholas Garaufis and Shira Scheindlin in cases involving the New York City Fire and Police Departments HIGHLIGHTS....]

The state's chief administrative judge argued a pay raise consistent with federal district judges — who make $ 174,000 — would not be appropriate if not adjusted for inflation because federal judges have not had cost - of - living increases since 2009.

Salon has an interesting report on Tuesday's court hearing before federal district judge Edward Korman in which the Administration sought to defend its newly announced policy of limiting the over-the-counter availability of Plan - B contraception to females 15 and older instead of removing all restrictions as Korman had previously ordered.

Tara Leigh Grove: «As soon as a single federal district judge issued an injunction with the first travel ban, the Department of Homeland Security complied.»

The recent decisions of federal district judges Nicholas Garaufis and Shira Scheindlin in cases involving the New York City Fire and Police Departments highlights the importance of the Senate's role in recommending federal judges to the President and in confirming judges who are neutral arbiters of disputes.

Federal District Judge Lawrence J. O'Neill, Eastern District of California, ruled on Thursday that the State of California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) program is in violation of the Commerce Clause of the US Constitution and issued an injunction prohibiting its enforcement.

Trying to save face and still limit the reach of the voucher program, Holder and DOJ asked federal district judge Ivan Lemelle to force the state to provide data on the students receiving vouchers and to give DOJ authority to veto vouchers for particular students.

In the article, which is available here, I argue that Congress and state legislatures, and not individual federal district judges around the country, should be actively working on improving lethal injection protocols.

If there is anything I desperately want to believe it is this: The great majority of federal district judges do not act like politicians in black robes.

Said Virginia federal district judge Claude Hilton: «The First Amendment does not recognize exceptions for bigotry, racism, and religious intolerance or ideas or matters some may deem trivial, vulgar or profane.»

The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) challenged the law last year in Wisconsin, and federal district judge Barbara Crabb agreed that the allowance violates the First Amendment because it provides «a benefit to religious persons and no one else, even though doing so is not necessary to alleviate a special burden on religious exercise.»

On September 10 Federal District Judge Robert D. Potter ordered an end to the school busing system in the Charlotte - Mecklenburg (North Carolina) School District.

The controversy over the injunction issued in October 1997 by Alabama Federal District Judge Ira M. DeMent restricting religious activity in public schools, as well as the continuing controversy in the state concerning Judge Roy Moore's courtroom display of the Ten Commandments, can be....

For example, in case number 87 C 10746, Gutzmacher v. Public Building Commission, in U.S. District Court for the Northern District ofIllinois, Eastern Division, Senior Federal District Judge James B. Parson ruled on Dec. 4, 1989 that the Public Building Commission was enjoined from discriminating against all forms of religious expression and ordered the Public Building Commission to permit Gutzmacher to erect a nativity scene display during the Christmas season,» added Scholten.

Data show black federal district judges are overturned on appeal 10 percent more often than white judges.

On Wednesday, Federal District Judge Orinda Evans ruled that the case could move forward, even ruling that she found that CNN may have acted with «actual malice» with the report — a standard necessary to prove a defamation claim.

In addition, as Doug has so well documented, Federal District Judges since Booker have tended to treat the Guideline sentence as reasonable per se, and Courts of Appeals have been far more likely to affirm upward departures than downward departures.

Apparently, two critical e-mails in a stock option prosecution against McAfee's former general counsel weren't turned over because temp attorneys had marked them as not relevant, Howrey partner Robert Gooding Jr. explained to federal district judge Marilyn Hall Patel.

Clerking with a magistrate judge is slightly more limited in scope as their remit is constrained by what federal district judges assign them.

That's one of the questions raised by yesterday's ruling by Manhattan federal district judge Alvin Hellerstein, overturning settlements in four lawsuits by the Maryland law firm of

For the past two and a half years years, Tom Kirkendall of Houston's Clear Thinkers has been offering continuing coverage of the long, tragic story of Jamie Olis, a midlevel executive at Dynegy who was sentenced by federal district Judge Sim Lake to a 24 - year prison term for his involvement in a fraudulent accounting scheme.

Though I have (and others have) blogged this topic before, my recent great experience at the Sixth Circuit Judicial Conference reminded me how many federal district judges would make great Justice material.

With all these thoughts in mind, I hope readers might use the comments to suggest great federal district judges for the next Supreme Court vacancy.

We note that the district court did cite opinions by other federal district judges expressing their disagreement with the Yeager rule.

In December of 2016, Federal District Judge Mark Lane slapped Rosales with more than $ 176,000 in sanctions.

GlaxoSmithKline is appealing a Delaware federal district judge's ruling that wiped out a $ 235 million verdict against Teva Pharmaceuticals for allegedly infringing a patent for the hypertension drug Coreg.

Epstein, Landes and Posner have found that most of the time most federal district judges apply rules and precedents that do not necessarily coincide with their personal views.

Judge Dundy did what cautious yet concerned federal district judges have done for a long time.

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.

A group of retired federal district judges filed an amicus in support of the respondent.

The authors of The Behavior of Federal Judges A Theoretical and Empirical Study of Rational Choice, discussed in the last post, looked at the important question of the behavior of federal district judges when they sentence people.

Pfau testified an increase consistent with federal district judges — who make $ 174,000 — would not be appropriate if not adjusted for inflation because federal judges have not had cost - of - living increases since 2009.

Persons interested in lethal injection issues, or troubled that a single federal district judge is actively setting regulations for executions, should be sure to check out my article in the forthcoming Cato Supreme Court Review.

Federal District Judge Lawrence J. O'Neill, Eastern District of California, ruled on Thursday that the State of California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) program is in violation of the Commerce Clause of the US Constitution and issued an injunction prohibiting its enforcement.

First, there's federal district Judge Lewis Kaplan's findings in the KPMG case that prosecutors acted improperly when they intimidated KPMG into cutting off attorney fees payments for employees charged in the government's investigation.

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Federal district judges do so because the alternative — going outside the norm of conventional legal reasoning — is wasteful.

When reading the opinions of federal district judges, the public, Federalist Society members, American Constitution Society members, Circuit judges, and Supreme Court Justices may not like what they see.

Unlike my very favorable view of certain specialist tribunals like bankruptcy appellate panels (BAPs), I am a strong believer in review of social security disability denials by federal district judges.

In a blow to independent contractors for transportation companies seeking to be classified as employees of the firms they work with, a federal district judge in Massachusetts ruled the state's independent - contractor law failed to override a 1994 federal statute pre-empting state regulation of a motor carrier's rates, routes and services.