Sentences with phrase «federal jurist»

«Utah's top federal jurist violated judicial rules with Obama donations»: This article appears today in The Salt Lake Tribune.

The federal jurist speculated that, by that argument, the governor had the right to delay a special election to give an ally a political advantage.

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In all these instances jurists are, according to the Times, disqualified from being considered for the federal bench.

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 jurist.

Judge Jones was one of the most respected jurists on the federal bench and remains one of the most respected lawyers in the city of New York.»

As many of you know by now, Jones, a former U.S. Attorney and scion of a political family that includes famed judge and U.S. Senator Howell Heflin, won what was previously considered an unlikely victory over Moore, a jurist who was twice removed from his role as chief justice of the Iron State's supreme court for willfully ignoring failing to enforce federal rulings.

Nonetheless, the jurist said that if Puddicombe's had been a civil case, and judged under a lesser standard of evidence, the federal government probably would have won.

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.

Provides information to practitioners, jurists, and the public about the law governing the awarding of attorney fees and costs with a focus on California state law and rulings coming from California federal judicial forums.

Readers of this blog and those others probably know that some member of the Conservative Party, or of the federal civil service, obtained opinions from leading scholars and jurists that the appointment of Justice Nadon is legal.

Nadon, a judge of the Federal Court of Appeal, was appointed as one of three jurists that the law requires comes from Quebec.

The Honourable Joseph T. Robertson, Q.C., formerly of the Federal Court of Appeal (1992 - 2000), the New Brunswick Court of Appeal (2000 - 2014) and Jurist - in - Residence with the Faculty of Law, University of New Brunswick (2014 - 2017).

As detailed in this Los Angeles Times piece, headlined «To some jurists, high court ruling brings vindication,» federal sentencing judges long troubled by the rigidity and severity of the federal guidelines are sure to celebrate the Supreme Court's work yesterday in Gall and Kimbrough.

Judge Richard Posner, the formidable jurist on the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, recently published in the legal journal «Green Bag» a delightfully readable two - part article: «What is Obviously Wrong With the Federal Judiciary, Yet Eminently Curable.»

The Graham Gund design was selected by a distinguished panel of jurists that included George White, FAIA, former Architect of the Capitol, the position that oversees architectural work to federal buildings and monuments in Washington, D.C.; Harry Robinson III, FAIA, former dean of architecture at Howard University and chairman of the Washington, D.C., Commission of Fine Arts; Colden «Coke» Florance, FAIA, a prominent Washington, D.C. architect; Helsel; Rosenthal; Dale Colby, RPOC vice chair; Steven Leader, CRE ®, past president of The Counselors of Real Estate; and Al Mansell, CRB, NAR first vice president nominee.