Sentences with phrase «federal judges often»

In complex injury litigation, federal judges often select a small number of lawyers to conduct the national investigation on behalf of the thousands of people injured.

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Campaigns collect donors» occupation and employer because federal law requires it, but users often thought they did it to judge a giver's future cash value.

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.

Most states have chosen not to follow the federal example with regard to judges and have either imposed a constitutional retirement age, as in the case of Colorado, where Colorado Constitution, Article IV, Section 23 (1) requires judges to retire at age 72, and / or have a commission overseeing judges (and sometimes other civil servants) that can require them to retire due to disabilities which often arise from old age.

Judge Crotty indicated that although he was obliged to follow the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in McCutcheon v. FEC, which recently invalidated federal aggregate contribution limits, he disagreed with the court's analysis and lamented that regular citizens «are too often drowned out by the few who have great resources.»

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

But getting rid of student loans now entails suing the lender (often, the federal government) and proving to a judge that circumstances are so dire there's no way the loans will ever be repaid, even under income - based repayment programs.

Gertner says judges are too often silent on issues they should publicly address, such as how federal sentencing guidelines have led to what she and other jurists consider unreasonably long prison terms for nonviolent drug offenders.

It aims to help attorneys gain insights into questions such as how long federal judges typically take to resolve cases, how they rule on dispositive motions, and how often they are overturned on appeal.

This is the second time that a federal judge has ruled against the administration's decision to end DACA, which affects some 700,000 people in the U.S. often referred to as «Dreamers.»

In many instances, federal judges will dispose of federal employment cases at the summary judgment phase — and there's often not much relief on appeal.

But McLachlin is not the one appointing the judges — it is the federal government, which also appoints judges across the country to courts where Supreme Court judges often come from.

I generally believe (and often have argued) that a wide range of considerations can and should be brought to bear as a federal sentencing judge considers, under 18 U.S.C § 3553 (a), what sentence will be «sufficient, but not greater than necessary, to comply with the purposes set forth» by Congress.

In federal court, «[a] recurring complaint is that lawyers often have little or no direct contact with the judges in charge of their cases.»

Plea bargaining often takes place in private discussions either with the judge, as is done in the state system in Connecticut, or between the parties, as is done in the federal system.

U. L. Rev. 369, 438 (1992)(finding that attorneys who removed cases from state to federal court «most often cited summary judgment availability as their reason for removal» to federal court, and that the attorneys perceived «a greater willingness of the federal judiciary to grant summary judgment motions» as well as «organizational impediments limiting the ability of the state court judges to issue summary judgment rulings»).

As a result, federal court judges have a stronger personal incentive to grant summary judgment than some of their state court counterparts.93 Finally, federal courts have more resources at their disposal than state courts and are therefore in a better position to invest the significant judicial resources often required to decide a motion for summary judgment.94

Due to DiMuroGinsberg's lawyers» regular practice in the Court and frequent appearances before the judges of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, the firm is often called upon to act as lead or local counsel for corporate counsel and out of state clients and law firms unfamiliar with the local rules and practices of the unusually efficient federal court in Alexandria, the legendary «Rocket Docket.»

In discussion of post-Booker federal sentencing at the Yale Law School class I recently had the pleasure of attending, I was surprised to often hear the refrain that judges «should not make policy judgments» at sentencing.

In looking to real conduct, federal sentencing judges have long relied upon a probation officer's presentence report, which is often unavailable until after the trial.

Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court and judges of lower federal courts will often include the year of compilation for a Code of Federal Regulations provision in an opinion's first citation to it, leaving the year off all subsequent refefederal courts will often include the year of compilation for a Code of Federal Regulations provision in an opinion's first citation to it, leaving the year off all subsequent refeFederal Regulations provision in an opinion's first citation to it, leaving the year off all subsequent references.

You may feel quite strongly about your interpretation, but I will leave you with the often - quoted words of Federal Judge Easterbrook: «Some people believe with great fervor preposterous things that just happen to coincide with their self - interest.»