Sentences with phrase «federal district judges do»

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.

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U.S. District Judge Kiyo Matsumoto issued the ruling Monday, saying it did not matter that investors eventually came out ahead since the amount of loss plays a significant role in federal sentencing guidelines.

A District of Columbia federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by state bank regulators against the U.S. Comptroller of the Currency over its proposal to offer charters that would let so - called fintech companies do business nationwide.

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.

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.»

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 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.»

Judging the two candidates in terms of which one would do the best job for, and funnel the most federal support to, the 19th Congressional District in general and Ulster and Kingston in particular, we endorse the re-election of Chris Gibson.

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.

A federal district judge has ruled that the Maryland legislature had a right to reform the public employees» retirement system, despite allegations by the Maryland State Teachers» Association and other unions that in doing so the state violated a contract agreement.

Washington — Five states no longer require school districts to keep records showing that they do not allocate less local funding to schools receiving federal Chapter 1 funds, and 31 other states have relaxed standards by which they judge «comparability,» according to the General Accounting Office.

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.)

U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni on July 25 in Manhattan ruled that federal law does not preempt the state and its Public Service Commission (PSC) from using a zero - emissions credit (ZEC) program designed to support cleaner energy options in New York.

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.»

Even though I live and practice bankruptcy law in one of the most progressive states in the Union: California, I do not see enough female and ethnic bankruptcy attorneys or trustees and although I am admitted in multiple federal districts in the state, to my knowledge, I have never appeared before a single ethnic bankruptcy judge.

The unanimous three - judge panel, however, did affirm a federal district trial judge's finding that the public could submit requests for visitor records related to other agencies housed within the White House complex, such as the Office of Management and Budget.

US District Judge Lynn Adelman (ED Wisc): «Booker does two things that will lead to a more just system: (1) it restores federal judges to a meaningful role in the sentencing process; and (2) it makes clear that fairness in sentencing requires consideration of factors other than reducing sentencing disparities.»

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.

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.

«[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 assault.

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

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.