Sentences with phrase «federal judges make»
As with jury verdicts, the number of actual decisions by federal judges make up a tiny percentage of total cases.
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As the Post article describes, Roberts argues that salaries for federal judges haven't increased at the same pace as other workers (and indeed, have declined) and that today's federal judges make less than half of the deans and professors at the nation's top law schools.
Both the city and county have agreed to delay implementing the laws until federal judges make a ruling on the cases.
The decision came the same day a federal judge made public an order that Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal maintain Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood centers for 14 more days while the court considers plans to cut it off permanently.
Hawaii's public school teachers returned to their classrooms last week, having bargained with the state for sizable raises and bonuses in a deal struck hours before a federal judge made good on a promise to intervene.
Not exact matches
In 1986, President Ronald Reagan nominated Sessions to become a federal judge, but the Republican - controlled Senate Judiciary Committee rejected the nomination after it was discovered that Sessions repeatedly made racist comments.
In a court ruling authorizing the arrests, Brazilian federal judge André Duszczak said «Faria and other BRF officers sought to cover up claims of possible food contamination, as shown in certain laboratory tests, made by a former employee in a labor lawsuit.»
Citing concerns about giving Google «a significant advantage over competitors,» a New York federal judge shot down a settlement that would permit Google to make millions of books accessible online — the latest setback in the Internet behemoth's six - year - long legal battle over its digital library.
A defiant Donald Trump has pledged to appeal against a federal judge's order placing an immediate halt on his revised travel ban, describing the ruling as judicial overreach that made the United States look weak.
The Senate confirmation hearing of Sen. Jeff Sessions, President - elect Donald Trump's pick for attorney general, is likely to rehash racially charged allegations that derailed his efforts to become a federal judge and made him a symbol of black - voter intimidation under the Reagan administration.
He couldn't undo it on his own, but he could work with Congress to make changes to it or to rewrite the rule, which is currently in limbo since a federal judge in Texas blocked it in late November.
The outcome of that $ 85 billion merger - in - the - making depends on a case in federal court, which is pending the decision of the judge.
AT&T (T) told a federal judge that it should spurn any request by the U.S. Justice Department to make it divest its DirecTV business or Turner networks as part of approving its proposed $ 85.4 B takeover of Time Warner (TWX), Reuters reports.
A federal judge in Los Angeles has denied Stormy Daniels motion seeking to depose Donald Trump and his attorney, Michael Cohen, over a $ 130,000 payment made to the adult film star days before the...
The Post's Spencer Hsu: «The federal judge overseeing the criminal trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and business partner Rick Gates imposed a gag order in the case Wednesday, ordering all parties, including potential witnesses, not to make statements that might prejudice jurors.
The federal judge overseeing the criminal trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and business partner Rick Gates imposed a gag order in the case Wednesday, ordering all parties, including potential witnesses, not to make statements that might prejudice jurors.
On Friday, federal Judge Kimba Wood, who is presiding over Cohen's lawsuit, told Cohen's lawyers that she wanted a list of Cohen's clients to make a decision on whether to stop the FBI from reviewing the seized materials.
If you review the personal bankruptcy filings of individuals making $ 500k or more, you will see what federal judges and bankruptcy trustees believe are «necessary expenses» and which are not.
The Islamic Center of Murfreesboro is now asking a federal judge to allow the mosque to open, arguing that it is being blocked «merely because local anti-Islamic protests have made the mosque controversial.»
Interestingly, in September the Clinton Justice Department made some noises about possibly appointing some federal judges who are not on «the right side» of the abortion question.
My best friend's dad came up to me, this guy was a federal judge, and said to me «John, son, I just want you to know one thing — your dad makes the best Bloody Mary mix ever!
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.
A federal bankruptcy judge is set to make a decision Wednesday that could finally begin resolving the future of the shuttered Maryknoll Seminary property in Glen Ellyn.
Globo's Jornal Nacional, the most important daily TV news program in the country, has also spent a ridiculous amount of time exposing private telephone conversations between Rousseff and Lula that were secretly tapped and questionably made public by Sergio Moro, the judge who oversees the Car Wash Operation in the Federal Judiciary.
If the DACA deal - making in D.C. drags on too long, it could be disrupted by a different force: a federal judge in Brooklyn who has sternly warned that should policy makers prove unable to repair the program, he might have to do it.
The judge, who noted that the Coroner Law was an enactment of the Lagos State House of Assembly, which is constitutionally empowered to make laws in the state, said «the Federal High Court could not dabble into the affairs of the state and start dishing out injunctive orders.»
I would also like to add to @sabbahillel's answer that when the Democrats last controlled the Senate, they changed the Senate rules and eliminated the filibuster on federal judge appointments to make it easier for the Senate to approve the appointments of the Obama administration.
A federal judge said that a lawsuit alleging gifts or payments from foreign and domestic governments made to Trump may be illegal can proceed.
A federal judge in New York tossed out a sweeping lawsuit that sought to make marijuana legal under federal law, ruling that the plaintiffs had failed to take the necessary first step of asking the DEA to remove cannabis from its list of dangerous substances.
A federal judge in New York City says she wants to make sure real - life «Wolf of Wall Street» Jordan Belfort continues to pay back the nearly $ 100 million he owes in restitution.
A Brooklyn federal magistrate judge objected to the 600 objections a lawyer made during a deposition, and now the city is going to pay for it.
Geoffrey Berman's interim appointment as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York is set to expire in a matter of weeks, shouldering Manhattan federal judges with the responsibility of appointing Berman until a formal nomination is made by the White House and confirmed by the Senate, finding someone else or even opting out entirely.
The court also directed the publication of the interim orders in any national newspaper for anyone who is interested in the cash sums and the properties to appear before the judge to show cause within 14 days why the final order of forfeiture of the properties should not be made in favour of the Federal Government of Nigeria.
Granholm did not hold back, however, about whether Obama should be looking at candidates who are not currently sitting federal judges — a suggestion made often by Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, D - Vermont, whose committee holds hearings on Supreme Court nominees.
(Reuters)- Lawyers for once - powerful former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver asked a judge on Tuesday to throw out federal corruption charges against him because a top prosecutor made «prejudicial» public statements about his guilt.
If Cuomo vetoes the lines, a federal judge will get to draw them, which would produce a result (whatever it is) that will make lots of lawmakers and interest groups unhappy, but which will at the very least ensure that the lines are not tailored to insulate incumbents and majority parties from the vicissitudes of democracy.
The announcement was made in court papers filed recently, as part of the ongoing remedy process stemming from the federal class action lawsuit, Floyd vs. City of New York, in which a judge ruled the police unfairly targeted people of color for stops.
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.
He said the judge might have treated the instructions to the jury differently, and prosecutors «would have been even more careful» about making sure their summation and rebuttal arguments «completely conformed» with the court's new interpretation of the federal theft of honest services law.
A court clerk has filed a federal suit that charges former top Staten Island Administrative Judge Judith McMahon «conspired» with her husband, the borough's district attorney, to judge shop on narcotics cases to make sure prosecutors got a sympathetic juJudge Judith McMahon «conspired» with her husband, the borough's district attorney, to judge shop on narcotics cases to make sure prosecutors got a sympathetic jujudge shop on narcotics cases to make sure prosecutors got a sympathetic jurist.
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.
Brooklyn federal Judge Frederic Block yesterday told prosecutors that they needed to inform him within two weeks if they were planning to retry the former senator and his son on the deadlocked counts, but the decision to move forward has already been made, the source said.
A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced Dinesh D'Souza to five years of probation, including eight months in a community confinement center, ordering no jail time for the conservative author and pundit who pleaded guilty to using straw donors to make an illegal campaign contribution.
A California federal judge refused to make the Trump administration immediately resume reimbursement of Affordable Care Act subsidies for health insurance copays and deductibles.
Paterson noted he's not the only one to criticize Bharara: A federal judge knocked the prosecutor for public comments made after the arrest of Assemblyman Sheldon Silver on corruption charges, saying they walk «up against the line» of appropriate.
A decision made by a judge in a trial in a federal district court isn't binding on anyone, not even that judge.
Mentally Disabled Veterans and Guns — Vote Passed (240 - 175, 14 Not Voting) The bill would clarify the conditions under which individuals who receive federal benefits from the Veterans Affairs Department (VA) may be declared mentally incompetent for purposes of being added to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) and thereby prevented from purchasing guns or ammunition — requiring that an affirmative declaration be made by a judge that the person is dangerous.
At the hearing in the matter, Friday, MTN's counsel, Chief Wole Olanipekun, SAN, led a team of MTN lawyers made up of 10 senior advocates, told the presiding judge, Mohammed Idris, on Friday at the federal high court, Ikoyi, Lagos, that MTN has opted to settle out of court.
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.
A federal judge rejected ex-state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's third try to get his corruption charges tossed out, sarcastically noting Friday that the allegations in his indictment «do not make Silver look like a Boy Scout.»