Sentences with phrase «federal trial judges do»

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.»

«A lot of what the Supreme Court does is simply irrelevant to what federal trial judges do on a daily basis,» wrote Judge Kopf, who presides and blogs from Lincoln, Neb..

Not exact matches

Federal appeals court judges don't seem eager to embrace the arguments of lawyers seeking a new trial for Republican former New York Senate leader Dean Skelos.

Federal appeals court judges do not seem eager to embrace the arguments of lawyers seeking a new trial for former New York Senate leader Dean Skelos and his son.

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 7th Circuit upheld a trial judge's ruling dismissing the case, holding that the federal Communications Decency Act doesn't permit people to «sue the messenger just because the message reveals a third party's plan to engage in unlawful discrimination».

Saying that he does not want his courtroom to become a «three - ring circus,» the federal judge presiding over Louisiana's creationism case has limited the number of lawyers he will allow to participate in the July 26 trial.

For various reasons, the trial judge found Ontario did not have the right to take up the Keewatin lands within the boundaries of Treaty 3 without receiving authorization from the federal government.

In its decision, the Ontario Court of Appeal noted the trial judge «made many errors» stating the original interpretation did not take into consideration that a two - step process involving consultation by both the province and the federal government is unnecessary, as the treaty right is protected.

Because laws which are facially neutral may «unintentionally have a disproportionate or adverse effect on a group or individual» (at para 36), the Federal Court of Appeal proceeded, where the trial judge did not, to consider «whether the provisions of the ITA, while not directly discriminating on the basis of gender and family status, did so indirectly and unintentionally» (at para 36).

A Pennsylvania Superior court held that a trial judge did not violate the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) by refusing to split up a plaintiff's wrongful death and survival claims arising out of the death of a nursing home resident.

The federal indictment of prominent Mississippi trial lawyer Richard «Dickie» Scruggs on charges that he and four others tried to bribe a state judge hasn't done much for the reputation of lawyers in the Magnolia State.

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.

First, the axiom that we learn by doing is especially (and painfully) true for federal trial judges.

Richard George Kopf, who blogs about life as a federal trial judge over at Hercules and the Umpire, did an interesting thought experiment in relation to this case where he wondered if it was appropriate to use a peremptory strike of a juror if that juror is ugly and your client doesn't want ugly people on the jury or the case is somehow related to physical beauty.

I suspect it'll help reading the two papers together, and Canadian lawyers should keep in mind that US federal court trial judges, generally, do not have the obligation to write opinions adequately explaining every decision they make, even if adequate is only two lines.

Intending no effrontery, I urge the justices to write their opinions with the role of the federal trial judge more keenly in mind because it is in everyone's interest to do so.