Sentences with phrase «federal district judges when»

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.

Not exact matches

Since his last re-election, Clarke has openly supported Republican causes on local and national right - wing media outlets; proudly trumpets on official Milwaukee County letterhead his 2013 award from the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, whose leader suggested using women and children as human shields during Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy's standoff with federal agents; accused Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele of having «penis envy» and being on heroin when crafting the county budget and needing to be drug tested; blasted Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm and Chief Judge Jeffrey Kremers for being «soft on crime»; provided minimal protection for President Obama during his 2012 visit; employs former Scott Walker spokeswoman Fran McLaughlin, who was given criminal immunity over her role in Walker's mixing of campaign and county business; and created pro-gun public service announcements.

U.S. District Judge Ruben Castillo made the permit a necessity in February when he agreed with Park District opponent Roger Stone's contention that the trapshooting was a violation of the federal Clean Water Act.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Lara Treinis Gatz, in a letter to U.S. District Judge Joan Azrack, said she was concerned that Linda Mangano might argue as a defense that federal agents inaccurately reported their interviews of her, when she insisted her employment by Singh was not a sham job and that she performed actual marketing and public relations work.

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.

Judge Valerie E. Caproni of Federal District Court in Manhattan noted that even before Mr. Silver's arrest, when some of his fellow legislators had been arrested on corruption charges, he remained undeterred.

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.

Teachers in Chester, Pa., who said they would be willing to work without pay to keep classroom disruption to a minimum after their school district reported in early January that its cash reserves had dipped below $ 100,000, scored a small victory on Jan. 10 when a federal judge approved an advance on the district's state school aid pending the outcome of a lawsuit to force the state to provide adequate funding.

The presiding judge, Valerie E. Caproni of Federal District Court, told jurors at the outset of the trial that the government must prove that Mr. Silver knowingly participated in a scheme to defraud and «received things of value in the form of bribes or kickbacks, and that he knew when he accepted those things he was expected, in exchange, to take official action as the opportunity arose.»

U.S. District Judge Ernest C. Torres said in a decision released Oct. 26 that the department broke a contract with the Rhode Island Higher Education Assistance Authority when it withheld the money to comply with a 1987 federal deficit - reduction law.

«But even when successful, such suits still may not bring relief for the district, such as in Sumter County where a federal judge found fault with Alabama's funding system in an 800 - page opinion but also found the county was not entitled to relief from the court,» says Tuck.

The Houston teachers union scored a legal victory in May when a federal judge found that the Houston school district's system of evaluating teachers could violate due process rights.

A federal district judge ruled Friday that the Bureau of Land Management violated the law when it made 80 billion tons of coal available for leasing and opened up more than 8 million acres for oil and gas development in the Powder River Basin without first assessing the environmental risks or considering any alternatives.

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.

U.S. District Court Judge E. Richard Webber was an iPad skeptic when the federal judges were given the option of getting an Apple tablet.

And this morning, Peter Lattman of the Wall Street Journal Law Blog had the scoop on a «hot off the presses» ruling by federal district court Judge Lewis Kaplan, who found that that prosecutors violated the constitutional rights of a group of former KPMG partners in pressuring the firm not to advance them legal fees (I originally blogged about the matter here in the context of how much we should expect corporations to stand up for customer or employee rights when government comes knocking on the corporate door).

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.»

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.

When the Chaparros filed their lawsuit against Carnival arising out of their daughter's death, and also brought a claim on behalf of her brother for the intentional infliction of emotional distress, the United States District Court Judge dismissed the claim, ruling that under the federal pleading standards, the Plaintiffs had failed to properly state a claim for relief.

When multiple civil actions involving one or more common questions of fact are pending in several different federal district courts, those actions can sometimes be transferred to one district court for coordinated and consolidated management and pretrial proceedings under a single judge.

When the person goes to seek a remedy, can they make their initial pleading in a Federal district court, or will the judge of the district court require that the complaint be made first in the state where the alleged violation occurred?

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.

«[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.

A federal magistrate judge in the Southern District of Florida recently ruled that a law firm had waived work product protection over notes and memoranda of witness interviews when it provided «oral downloads» of those interviews to...

In late May, the Key West Association of REALTORS ® scored a major victory when a federal district court judge in Florida awarded $ 2.7 million to KWAR in its action against businessman Robert Allen, whose KeyWestMLS.com and other Web sites were found to be using the association's listing data in violation of copyright laws.