Sentences with phrase «intermediate appellate court level»

For example, the legal fight in the U.S. to hold bans on same sex marriage to be unconstitutional was fought in and resulted in ruling in dozens of courts at the trial court and state appellate court, and federal intermediate appellate court level before a uniform ruling was established by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Not exact matches

Most states, including Indiana, have three levels of courts: trial, intermediate appellate, and supreme.

Only South Carolina and Virginia use a legislative appointment process at all court levels (Supreme Court, intermediate appellate and trial cocourt levels (Supreme Court, intermediate appellate and trial coCourt, intermediate appellate and trial courtcourt).

At the human level, I can not resist sharing how, when my wife Joan and I had Martha and her partner over to dinner many years ago, and I was showing off about my Massachusetts intermediate appellate court clerkship, and that she managed to include her clerkship with Justice Marshall without in any way suggesting a lack of comparability.