Sentences with phrase «former circuit judge»

Following a hearing that lasted just over an hour in Faulkner County this morning, Judge David Laser dismissed former Circuit Judge — and failed Court of Appeals candidate — Mike Maggio from a civil suit brought by the family of Martha Bull.

That is where the former circuit judge has spent much of his time since he retired in 2006.

Former Circuit Judge Robert Doyel, a Winter Haven Democrat and candidate for Senate District 22, is receiving what no other Polk County Democrat has received in more than two decades: support from his state party.

Not exact matches

For example, a local Sioux Falls company, CoinLion, that I advise pro bono, has advisors who are an eclectic mix: seasoned corporate executives ranging from legal and government advisors, to a former police officer and circuit judge.

Circuit Judge Dorothy Kirie Kinnaird also continued to prohibit the defendants in the case — current and former Park District officials — from any attempts to reform the district's controversial police department.

The Second Circuit found that a new Supreme Court decision narrowing public corruption laws in a case involving former Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell required different instructions than those used by Manhattan U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni.

Today, the U.S. Appeals Court for the Second Circuit denied disgraced former Bronx Assemblyman Eric Stevenson's appeal of his federal trial judge's order seizing his pension contributions assets that can be used to pay his $ 22,000 restitution penalty.

Silver was convicted of using his political influence for political favors; the conviction was tossed last summer, when appellate judges in the 2nd Circuit ruled that the definition of «official acts» had been changed by a previous Supreme Court decision in the public corruption case of former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell.

The four Republicans in the race — state Reps. Frank White, Ross Spano and Jay Fant, and former Hillsborough County Circuit Judge Ashley Moody — have previously spoken enthusiastically about gun rights.

The 2d U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals» three - judge panel hearing his appeal asked the defense and prosecutors to weigh in about the effect of the Silver ruling and another new decision affirming the conviction of former Assemb.

Before former President George W. Bush nominated him to the 10th Circuit Court, Gorsuch wrote and spoke against «judicial activism» and the perceived tendency of liberal - leaning judges to reinterpret longstanding laws as they saw appropriate.

A former Circuit Court judge has recommended that the controversial Thirty Meter Telescope project be allowed to move forward atop Mauna Kea.

Its CEO Jake Heller is a former litigation associate at Ropes & Gray and law clerk to 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Michael Boudin.

One of those judges is Kevin Newsom of the Atlanta - based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, a former Alabama solicitor general.

Over the past few weeks, I've been talking to a range of people who have worked with her, nearly all of them former law clerks for other judges on the Second Circuit or former federal prosecutors in New York.

The most consistent concern was that Sotomayor, although an able lawyer, was «not that smart and kind of a bully on the bench,» as one former Second Circuit clerk for another judge put it.

The practice features Paul Clement, Solicitor General of the United States from 2005 to 2008; Viet Dinh, former U.S. Assistant Attorney General; Christopher Landau, a former law clerk to both Justice Scalia and Justice Thomas; Michael McConnell, who served as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit; and many other attorneys who have served as law clerks on the Supreme Court, the courts of appeals, and the district courts.

It includes Christine Arguello, a Mexican - American appointed a U.S. district judge by President Bush last year; Ruben Castillo, a Mexican - American who has been a federal district judge for 15 years; Nora Demleitner, Hofstra Law dean; JoAnne Epps, Temple Law dean; Caitlin Halligan, former solicitor general of New York, now in private practice; Johnnie Rawlinson, 9th Circuit judge; and Patricia Timmons - Goodson, North Carolina Supreme Court justice.

He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and former clerk for 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Richard Posner.

In a culture ruled by virality, pithy memes like #IDontNeedFeminism threaten to have more firepower than sober observations — such as those of the former chief judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Patricia M. Wald — that gender inequality in cultures like the legal profession owes less to overt discrimination, and more to «subtle differences in how much more difficult it can be for women to locate and manipulate the levers of personal influence inside and outside the firm, with supervisors, senior partners, and clients.»

Other names floated by the Law Blog and by other sources are Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff; James B. Comey, former deputy attorney general and now general counsel of Lockheed Martin; D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Laurence H. Silberman; Patrick J. Fitzgerald, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois; Michael B. Mukasey, former chief judge of the Southern District of New York; SEC Chairman Christopher Cox; Larry D. Thompson, former deputy attorney general and now GC of PepsiCo; former solicitor general Ted Olson; and J. Michael Luttig, GC of Boeing and former judge of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of AppJudge Laurence H. Silberman; Patrick J. Fitzgerald, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois; Michael B. Mukasey, former chief judge of the Southern District of New York; SEC Chairman Christopher Cox; Larry D. Thompson, former deputy attorney general and now GC of PepsiCo; former solicitor general Ted Olson; and J. Michael Luttig, GC of Boeing and former judge of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appjudge of the Southern District of New York; SEC Chairman Christopher Cox; Larry D. Thompson, former deputy attorney general and now GC of PepsiCo; former solicitor general Ted Olson; and J. Michael Luttig, GC of Boeing and former judge of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appjudge of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

A circuit judge must generally build a Chinese wall between himself and a district judge in relation to a pending appeal from the latter to the former.

Rather, they're going for megabucks, like former Judge Luttig, who left the 4th Circuit for a job at Boeing last year.

They detest it and (before the guidelines) would give harsher sentences than other judges would,» said former Montgomery County Circuit Judge William Shashy who retired this past month.

Katie is a former law clerk to Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge M. Margaret McKeown, Perkins Coie's first woman partner.

HB 1127 Requires referees, marital referees, or marital masters serving in the superior courts and the circuit courts who are not former or retired judges to be commissioned as justices of the peace.

And former Kozinski law clerk Circuit Judge Sandra S. Ikuta issued an opinion concurring in part (and by implication dissenting in part) in which she makes clear that, in her view, the Communications Decency Act should protect the web site from all claims asserted under the Fair Housing Act that are based on information supplied by the web site's users.

The article reports on several legal profession luminaries — including Beth Wilkinson, who prosecuted Oklahoma City bomber Tim McVeigh; former 4th Circuit judge Michael Luttig; and Eric Dinallo, who investigated conflicts of interest on Wall Street under Elliott Spitzer — who have opted for in - house positions with big - name corporations like Fannie Mae (Wilkinson), Boeing (Luttig) and the Willis Group (Dinallo).

Rosemary Barkett, the first female Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court and former federal judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit believes that the court system is not an appropriate place to resolve divorce - related matters.

The honorary and distinguished members of the Burton Awards Board of Directors include the following leaders in law: Former Chief Judge Richard Posner, 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals; Judge Alex Kozinski, 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals; U.S. Senator John Cornyn; U.S. Senator Robert P. Casey, Jr.; U.S. Senator Mike Crapo; U.S. Senator Michael F. Bennet; Supreme Court Justice Carol Corrigan of California; Yabo Lin, Partner, Sidley Austin LLP; Jane Sullivan Roberts, Partner, Major, Lindsey & Africa; Lisa Rickard, President, U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform; Elissa Lichtenstein, Director, Public Services Division, American Bar Association; Thomas L. Sager, Partner, Ballard Spahr LLP; Les Parrette, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Compliance Officer, Novelis Inc.; James M. Rishwain, Jr., Chairman of Emeritus, Pillsbury Winthrop LLP; Betty Whelchel, Head of Public Policy & Regulatory Affairs, BNP Paribas SA; and Stephen R. Mysliwiec, Partner, DLA Piper LLP (US).

Early on in his career, Frank served as a law clerk to the Hon. Glenn L. Archer, Jr., former Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

* Speaking of former judges on the Ninth Circuit, Wilson Sonsini's Katherine Ku discusses her decision to come forward as a former Kozinski clerk.

The roles that Leslie currently undertakes include that of Part - Time Road User Charging Adjudicator, Consultant for Bond Solon Training, Consultant for Central Law Training, Tribunal Judge of the First Tier Tribunal (Mental Health), Managing Director of Independent Investigative Interviewing Limited, Independent Companies House Adjudicator, Independent Member of the Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee for North East Essex Magistrates Courts, Crown Court Recorder for the South Eastern Circuit, Counsel for the International Criminal Court (ICC), International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL), Panel Chair of the Nursing and Midwifery Council's Conduct and Competence Committee, Appeals Officer for Community Interest Companies, Tribunal Judge of the First Tier Tribunal (Special Education Needs and Disability) and Visiting Professional Fellow in Criminal Investigation at University of Derby.

More than 50 former federal judges and U.S. attorneys are pushing to get an 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling from last year overturned.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has handed Robert Jenevein, former judge of Dallas County Court - at - Law No. 3, a partial victory in his seven - year fight with the State Commission on Judicial Conduct.

«This favorable decision is the result of excellent work by our appellate attorneys and reflects the overall strength and experience of our appellate practice group,» said Joseph Hatchett, Chair of Akerman's appellate practice group, former Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and former Florida Supreme Court Justice.

Former Boone Circuit Judge Joseph «Jay» Bamberger stepped down from the stand Tuesday after three days of testimony in the federal trial of three lawyers charged with defrauding their clients out of $ 65 million.

It is partly a tribute to my former boss, Ed Carnes, current Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, for whom I clerked in 1998 - 1999.

«[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.

Described by a former Chief Judge as a possible «case of the year» for 2018, the federal circuit's hearing in the dispute between the University of California, Berkeley and the Broad

One would think that former ADA, former Attorney General, former Governor, Eliot Spitzer could read a short dissent with sufficient care to figure out which side was which before going public in an attempt to take on a circuit judge in a battle of wits.

At the time, the former prosecutor was already a judge, serving on the Burnett County Circuit Court.

Indeed, the stunning success rates enjoyed by IPR petitioners prompted former Federal Circuit chief judge Randall Rader to describe the PTAB, the administrative body in charge of inter partes reviews, as «death squads killing property rights.»

Israel Reyes, a former Miami - Dade County circuit judge, said he is «surprised» the state hasn't had more incidents with the current law.

Finally, after Broward Circuit Judge Jeffrey Levenson ordered the video released, BSO spokesperson Keyla Concepcion issued a statement that read in part, «The Broward Sheriff's Office welcomes the court's decision to release surveillance video from outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School showing former Deputy Peterson's response.»

Rosemary Barkett, the first female Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court and former federal judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit believes that the court system is not an appropriate place to resolve divorce - related matters.